Database Indexing Tim Perdue Like most PHP developers out there, I started off using databases to store relatively simple data structures for my dynamic sites. PHP's slickness and ease of database connectivity is no doubt a major reason for its wild success, and also probably a reason why databases get created and used without a huge amount of design and documentation. I'm not going to cover normalization, as Barry Wise wrote a fantastic article on that topic.
Indexing Let's start with indexing.
I was asked the other day by a fairly advanced programmer what indices are, and that scared me. I knew I had to write up an article as this programmer is clearly not alone. Corp. All Rights Reserved. Legal Notices, Reprints.