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Foreign Key Optimization: Create Unique Fulltext Spatial Index ON

Splitting less frequently used data into separate tables with a primary key and relating them to the main table through a duplicated ID column can improve performance. This allows each small table to have a primary key for fast lookups and queries to retrieve just the needed columns through joins, which may reduce I/O and memory usage since relevant columns are packed together.

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Foreign Key Optimization: Create Unique Fulltext Spatial Index ON

Splitting less frequently used data into separate tables with a primary key and relating them to the main table through a duplicated ID column can improve performance. This allows each small table to have a primary key for fast lookups and queries to retrieve just the needed columns through joins, which may reduce I/O and memory usage since relevant columns are packed together.

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Foreign Key Optimization

If a table has many columns, and you query many different combinations of columns, it
might be efficient to split the less-frequently used data into separate tables with a few
columns each, and relate them back to the main table by duplicating the numeric ID column
from the main table. That way, each small table can have a primary key for fast lookups of
its data, and you can query just the set of columns that you need using a join operation.
Depending on how the data is distributed, the queries might perform less I/O and take up
less cache memory because the relevant columns are packed together on disk. (To
maximize performance, queries try to read as few data blocks as possible from disk; tables
with only a few columns can fit more rows in each data block.)

CREATE INDEX Syntax


CREATE [UNIQUE | FULLTEXT | SPATIAL] INDEX index_name
[index_type]
ON tbl_name (key_part,...)
[index_option]
[algorithm_option | lock_option] ...

key_part: {col_name [(length)] | (expr)} [ASC | DESC]

index_option:
KEY_BLOCK_SIZE [=] value
| index_type
| WITH PARSER parser_name
| COMMENT 'string'
| {VISIBLE | INVISIBLE}

index_type:
USING {BTREE | HASH}

algorithm_option:
ALGORITHM [=] {DEFAULT | INPLACE | COPY}

lock_option:
LOCK [=] {DEFAULT | NONE | SHARED | EXCLUSIVE}

Suppose that a table has the following specification:

CREATE TABLE test (


id INT NOT NULL,
last_name CHAR(30) NOT NULL,
first_name CHAR(30) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id),
INDEX name (last_name,first_name)
);

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