DOCSP-41142: Work with Indexes + Single Field Indexes #14
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| your application's queries and operations that return sorted results. Each | ||
| index that you add consumes disk space and memory when active, so we recommend | ||
| that you track index memory and disk usage for capacity planning. In addition, | ||
| when a write operation updates an indexed field, MongoDB updates the related |
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S: I see that in the server manual, it talks about how indexes are not always the best when using write operations. I believe that the sentence starting with "In addition, when a write.." is implying that indices can negatively affect write operation performance, but it would be great to make that clearer.
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| Because MongoDB supports dynamic schemas, applications can query against fields | ||
| whose names are not known in advance or are arbitrary. MongoDB 4.2 introduced |
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Q: Is it it necessary to say what version of MongoDB introduced wildcard indexes, or can we just say that wildcard indexes support queries with fields that have arbitrary/unknown names?
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| You cannot remove a single field from a compound text index. You must |
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Q: I don't know what a compound text index is; is that information you expect the user to have already going into this page?
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All types of indexes are slated to receive their own page – this page will link to the compound text index page once it's written.
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| The following example creates an index in ascending order on the ``title`` field: |
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Q:Are there options to create an index in any other order other than ascending and descending?
S: Clarify/state explicitly that you can create an index in either ascending or descending order.
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Will add to page overview.
(cherry picked from commit 12ef143)
(cherry picked from commit 12ef143)
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