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		continuational on July 27, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MyS... 10 indexes on one table seems a bit much. It sounds like a table that hasn't been normalized.

nsxwolf on July 27, 2016 [–]

Though that is quite proper for a data warehouse.

dikei on July 27, 2016 | [–]

A data warehouse should use much fewer transactions though.

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