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What is a performance consideration of having too many indexes on a production online transaction processing (OLTP) table?
You are looking for the applicant to make some reference regarding data manipulations. The more indexes on a table, the more time it takes for the database engine to update, insert, or delete data, as the indexes all have to be maintained as the data manipulation occurs.
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