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Is it ok if I create like 8 indexes inside a table which has 13 columns?
If I select data from it and sort the results by a key, the query is really fast, but if the sort field is not a key it’s much slower. Like 40 times slower.
What I’m basically asking is if there are any side effects of having many keys in the database…
Creating indexes on a table slows down all write operations on it a little, but speeds up read operations on the relevant columns a lot. If your application is not going to be doing lots and lots of writes to that table (which is true of most applications) then you are going to be fine.