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What are the &quot;trade-offs&quot; to be considered when adding indexes to a large table on a heavily used OLTP system?<br />
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Thank you for your assistance.<br />
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Experts:

What are the "trade-offs" to be considered when adding indexes to a large table on a heavily used OLTP system?


Thank you for your assistance.

MikeV


Need help adding indexes to large table on busy system....

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