I am working on building a small Mysql database for our team. For two tables in my db, I used the same index name.
Would there be any performance hit?
I did a few tests queries (800,000+ rows) and so far, so good.
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I am working on building a small Mysql database for our team. For two tables in my db, I used the same index name.
Would there be any performance hit?
I did a few tests queries (800,000+ rows) and so far, so good.
Index names are specific to each table. You cannot have two indexes of the same name in one table, but you can have many indexes of the same name, one for every table. Index names are irrelevant for day-to-day performance. They’re simply there to provide a nice user-friendly way to refer to the index without having to list all the fields in the index. e.g. it’s easier to say
alter table XXX drop key friendlynamethanalter table XXX drop key (field1, field2, field3, field4, field5, etc...)