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They opened the schema. Maya had been filtering by star_id and timestamp without an index. Leo added a composite index. “Now, Antares doesn’t scan every star — it jumps straight to yours.”

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With the indexes added, the query rewritten ( SELECT magnitude FROM star_motions WHERE star_id = 'Antares' AND timestamp > NOW() - INTERVAL 7 DAY ), and partitions in place, Maya ran the query again. They opened the schema

“It’s frozen,” Maya whispered. “I tried a SELECT * on the entire star_motions table — 400 million rows. I didn’t mean to, but I forgot the WHERE clause.” “Now, Antares doesn’t scan every star — it