Unverified Commit 727a2f8b authored by John Richardson's avatar John Richardson Committed by GitHub
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Remove redundant SQL index in Pastebin exercise (#405)

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PRIMARY KEY(shortlink)
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We'll create an [index](https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer#use-good-indices) on `shortlink ` and `created_at` to speed up lookups (log-time instead of scanning the entire table) and to keep the data in memory. Reading 1 MB sequentially from memory takes about 250 microseconds, while reading from SSD takes 4x and from disk takes 80x longer.<sup><a href=https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer#latency-numbers-every-programmer-should-know>1</a></sup>
Setting the primary key to be based on the `shortlink` column creates an [index](https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer#use-good-indices) that the database uses to enforce uniqueness. We'll create an additional index on `created_at` to speed up lookups (log-time instead of scanning the entire table) and to keep the data in memory. Reading 1 MB sequentially from memory takes about 250 microseconds, while reading from SSD takes 4x and from disk takes 80x longer.<sup><a href=https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer#latency-numbers-every-programmer-should-know>1</a></sup>
To generate the unique url, we could:
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