CST-363 Week 5

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

Links to an external site. 

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

There may be additional costs that need to be made depending on the query. The author states that leaf node chains and table access may slow down lookups. If there are multiple matching entries in a lead node, the database will have to continue to reading data in the next leaf node. If there are multiple rows in a table that is pointed to from an index, each one would need to be read, decreasing performance.

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