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MySQL Invisible Indexes: A Safe Path to Dropping Unused Secondary Indexes

Use MySQL 8.0 invisible indexes to hide a suspect index from the optimizer, observe production, and restore or drop it with confidence.

index-optimization database-performance invisible-indexesTasadduq Burneyowner31.8K rep · 07 May 2026, 11:07 UTC