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> all major databases do these days Did everyone on HN miss that the database in question was whichever version of MySQL existed in 2002?

• mst 5y ago
  Which I was using in production at the time, and, yeah, what she ended up doing was a much better plan for that thing.
• jeremyjh 5y ago
  It actually doesn't matter. Even simple indexes would have made that schema work just fine, and MySQL could certainly index strings in 2002.