Hello monks!
I am using Perl for quite some time now, but now it's the first time I need to use it together with a Mysql database.So, I have some questions:
1) I need to store ~10.000.000 entries in a table PEOPLE which will be:
 ID (as Primary key), name VARCHAR (20), sequence (TEXT), label (TEXT)

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The search in this table must be done according to "name". Will a database with the specs: CREATE DATABASE Testdb DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci; be OK for this amount of entries?
2) Should I use indexes, like:create index name_index on PEOPLE (name); to speed up the search process?
There will be no need for regular inserts or updates in the table, so the only thing is if i am ok as far as the size is concerned to store my data. And also, if you have something to further suggest that will help the searches be more efficient, when, for instance, the user wants to look up the entry #5.809.672 which has the name 'Peter'
Thank you!

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