Designing an appropriate set of indexes can be one of the more troubling aspects of developing efficient relational database applications. Perhaps, the most important thing you can do to assure ...

Indexes are fundamental to database performance, but too often, they’re treated as “set it and forget it” structures. As the data landscape evolves—with hybrid cloud deployments, real-time analytics, ...

Using table indexes in databases enables you to find information within the database faster and more efficiently than not using table indexes. The two index types that are commonly used in database ...

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OptionMetrics already carried data on the volatility indexes─operated by CBOE and Stoxx, respectively─in its IvyDB US and IvyDB Europe products. "The VIX has become extremely popular in recent years, ...