DATA ENGINEERING

Indexing Very Large Tables

A short guide to the best practices around indexing large tables and how to use partitioning to ease the load on indexing

Towards Data Science
6 min readJul 5, 2020

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This article was last updated on 5 August 2021. Thanks to John Trollope for pointing out some embarrassing typos.

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