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Slow Queries That Only Appear at Scale — The Indexing Problem

Your query runs in 2ms in development with 1,000 rows. In production with 10 million rows, the same query takes 8 seconds. The database does a full table scan on every single request. Here''s how to identify missing indexes, write efficient queries, and build a database that stays fast as data grows.

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