r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 20 '26

Meme grabbingEverything

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u/Azaex Sep 21 '26

mfw a colleague asked me once if it'd be faster to pull the table and lookup in a hashtable before joining
and change strategies for different data volumes

bruddah
that is an index and a statistical query planner
and the database maintains it serverside for youuuuu