May the Index be with you! by Lawrence Schwartz.
From the post:
The summer’s end is rapidly approaching — in the next two weeks or so, most people will be settling back into work. Time to change your mindset, re-evaluate your skills and see if you are ready to go back from the picnic table to the database table.
With this in mind, let’s see how much folks can remember from the recent indexing talks my colleague Zardosht Kasheff gave (O’Reilly Conference, Boston, and SF MySQL Meetups). Markus Winand’s site “Use the Index, Luke!” (not to be confused with my favorite Star Wars parody, “Use the Schwartz, Lone Starr!”), has a nice, quick 5 question indexing quiz that can help with this.
Interesting enough to request an account so I could download ToKuDB v.5.0. Uses fractal trees for indexing speed. Could be interesting. More on that later.