diff --git a/pkg/sqlite/database.go b/pkg/sqlite/database.go
index eed335f09..0510d7baf 100644
--- a/pkg/sqlite/database.go
+++ b/pkg/sqlite/database.go
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ const (
 	cacheSizeEnv = "STASH_SQLITE_CACHE_SIZE"
 )
 
-var appSchemaVersion uint = 67
+var appSchemaVersion uint = 68
 
 //go:embed migrations/*.sql
 var migrationsBox embed.FS
diff --git a/pkg/sqlite/migrations/68_image_studio_index.up.sql b/pkg/sqlite/migrations/68_image_studio_index.up.sql
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3bb354e73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/sqlite/migrations/68_image_studio_index.up.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+-- with the existing index, if no images have a studio id, then the index is 
+-- not used when filtering by studio id. The assumption with this change is that
+-- most images don't have a studio id, so filtering by non-null studio id should
+-- be faster with this index. This is a tradeoff, as filtering by null studio id
+-- will be slower.
+DROP INDEX index_images_on_studio_id;
+CREATE INDEX `index_images_on_studio_id` on `images` (`studio_id`) WHERE `studio_id` IS NOT NULL;
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