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Week 5

 Include in your journal entry for this week the following

The web site "Use the Index Luke" has a page on "slow indexes".   https://use-the-index-luke.com/sql/anatomy/slow-indexesLinks to an external site. 

If indexes are supposed to speed up performance of query,  what does the author mean by a slow index? 

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