Definition: In computer science, reindexing is a process of modifying or reshuffling data in a database. It involves moving or changing the order of elements within a table so that they can be accessed more efficiently. Reindexing typically happens during an update operation to a database. This might happen when a row with a certain attribute is being updated, and the old value needs to be replaced with the new value. The process of reindexing involves iterating through the rows in the database, looking for the