From 816a0f75ee26ac83038a0d2c2c064c176ac9a355 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: GowthamRaj K <43011442+gowthamrajk@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 08:19:46 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3dab73b..f7cb203 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -674,3 +674,7 @@ There are different types of joins available in SQL − # SQL - Indexes ✌ +- Indexes are special lookup tables that the database search engine can use to speed up data retrieval. +- Simply put, an index is a pointer to data in a table. +- An index in a database is very similar to an index in the back of a book. +