The Table Primary Key (PK) is automatically an index. Indexes should be used whenever a relationship needs to be established between two tables using a field other than the PK E.g. both fields included in the ON table1.field1=table2.field3 clause. Making both fields indexes allows MySQL to JOIN the two tables much more efficiently and much …
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