B-Tree indexes are perfect when your data is uniformly distributed. They are not really useful, when you have skewed data. I'll explain later why this is the case, but let's first learn how to detect "skew" What is skew? Skew is a term from statistics when a normal distribution is not symmetric. The example given … Continue reading Calculate Percentiles to Learn About Data Set Skew in SQL
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