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   FileMaker Fundamentals: Understanding Indexing

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   Anyone CAN find a needle in a haystack, if they supply a
   seemingly endless amount of time and patience. The
   problem, however, is we often feel we have little of
   either.

   So we strive to make things as fast as we can -
   including our database response time. This is where
   field indexing enters the picture. Fields in your
   database are indexed according to various rules.
   Different field types are indexed slightly differently,
   but it's all zeros and ones underneath.

   For the most part, indexing in FileMaker is easy.
   FileMaker attempts to take care of this for you. It has
   a check box which is turned on by default, which
   basically implies "Don't worry, I'll just turn it on if
   I need it."

   So, it's always good to know what is going on behind the
   scenes and what might bite you in the behind. Such as an
   accidental indexing set off across millions of record
   rows while a database is live.

   In this particular video, I show you everything I know
   about how FileMaker indexing works and why you need to
   know about it. While disk space may be cheap, and making
   every possible field indexed is certainly possible,
   there's always a trade off. For example, if your file
   size is double of what it needs to be, then backing it
   up will obviously take a longer time.

   So, taking control of the indexing is something any
   proficient FileMaker developer will do.

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