diff --git a/components/gitpod-db/src/typeorm/entity/db-workspace.ts b/components/gitpod-db/src/typeorm/entity/db-workspace.ts
index fe1ea8d6fb..faa0320856 100644
--- a/components/gitpod-db/src/typeorm/entity/db-workspace.ts
+++ b/components/gitpod-db/src/typeorm/entity/db-workspace.ts
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ export class DBWorkspace implements Workspace {
     ownerId: string;
 
     @Column("text")
-    @Index('ind_contextURL')
     contextURL: string;
 
     @Column({
diff --git a/components/gitpod-db/src/typeorm/migration/1644327547997-IndexWorkspaceContextUrl.ts b/components/gitpod-db/src/typeorm/migration/1644327547997-IndexWorkspaceContextUrl.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index a5136705e3..0000000000
--- a/components/gitpod-db/src/typeorm/migration/1644327547997-IndexWorkspaceContextUrl.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Copyright (c) 2022 Gitpod GmbH. All rights reserved.
- * Licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL).
- * See License-AGPL.txt in the project root for license information.
- */
-
-import {MigrationInterface, QueryRunner} from "typeorm";
-import { indexExists } from "./helper/helper";
-
-export class IndexWorkspaceContextUrl1644327547997 implements MigrationInterface {
-
-    public async up(queryRunner: QueryRunner): Promise<void> {
-        const TABLE_NAME = "d_b_workspace";
-        const INDEX_NAME = "ind_contextURL";
-
-        if(!(await indexExists(queryRunner, TABLE_NAME, INDEX_NAME))) {
-            await queryRunner.query("ALTER TABLE d_b_workspace MODIFY COLUMN `contextURL` varchar(255) NOT NULL");
-            await queryRunner.query(`CREATE INDEX ${INDEX_NAME} ON ${TABLE_NAME} (contextURL)`);
-        }
-    }
-
-    public async down(queryRunner: QueryRunner): Promise<void> {
-    }
-
-}