SELECT COUNT(*) is Slow, Estimate it Instead (with Example in Node JS and Postgres)
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In this video, I'll show how we can use the database query planner to estimate the count with the table statistics and gain enormous performance. I'm going to use Postgres as my database and express node js as my backend.
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