• I know it's already been covered, but just to put in cleartext:

    The reason why you need to be careful about which indexes to add is that adding indexes can actually harm performance if it's not the indexes you really need and are going to use. The indexes themselves need to be updated and maintained, so if you're not really using them then you're just wasting time and resources doing work that's not good for anything.


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