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title: "Learning SQL Part 6: SQL INDEX and SQL Views"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/learning-sql-part-6-sql-index-and-sql-views-lgmfy1jj9
source_url: https://selectfrom.dev/learning-sql-part-6-index-and-sql-views-6c12ac4529d8?source=rss----415fa49cac1b---4
type: article
source: "SelectFrom"
published: 2023-08-13T12:18:21.380Z
updated: 2023-08-13T12:15:47.523Z
tags: ["database", "sql", "microsoft-sql-server", "mysql", "sqlite"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
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# Learning SQL Part 6: SQL INDEX and SQL Views

**[SelectFrom](https://daily.dev/sources/selectfrom)** · 2 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A database index is a data structure that improves the speed of operations in a table. Indexes are used to retrieve data from the database more quickly than otherwise. The users cannot see the indexes, they are just used to speed up searches/queries. The INSERT and UPDATE statements take more time on tables having indexes.

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