Subject Re: [ib-support] Will unique index of long field hurt speed?
Author Martijn Tonies
Hi Michael,

> A field is varchar(200) charset ASCII, and it must be unique. If I
> create a unqiue index on that field, will it hurt performance
> obviously, especially for insert?

What do you mean "obviously"? You won't notice any speed difference
in inserting a row - perhaps with a 10000 (in a single run). But if you need
to do that, simply drop the index and re-create it afterwards.


With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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