Database Indexing in real life

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Hussein Nasser
Jun 28, 2025
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Database indexing is a topic still being researched to this day. Such a simple concept: I want to find something but I have too much to scan.

Indexing answers the question can we reduce the search space by eliminating things that I know don’t have my results?

It is all about elimination.

In a book, if you want the first page of chapter , you don’t flip ove…

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