id,page,ref,title,content,breadcrumbs,references facets:speeding-up-facets-with-indexes,facets,speeding-up-facets-with-indexes,Speeding up facets with indexes,"The performance of facets can be greatly improved by adding indexes on the columns you wish to facet by. Adding indexes can be performed using the sqlite3 command-line utility. Here's how to add an index on the state column in a table called Food_Trucks : sqlite3 mydatabase.db SQLite version 3.19.3 2017-06-27 16:48:08 Enter "".help"" for usage hints. sqlite> CREATE INDEX Food_Trucks_state ON Food_Trucks(""state""); Or using the sqlite-utils command-line utility: sqlite-utils create-index mydatabase.db Food_Trucks state","[""Facets""]","[{""href"": ""https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/cli.html#creating-indexes"", ""label"": ""sqlite-utils""}]"