Category Archives: Index
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Using unique constraints
5December 10, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
I ran into an interesting problem the other day. Given the title of the post, obviously a unique constraint was …
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Filtered Index restrictions and Kendra Little’s Index Quiz
3July 20, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
A few weeks ago I saw a tweet about Kendra Little’s (b/t) new SQL Server Quizzes. Of course I had …
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Does a clustered index sort the rows within a page
Leave a commentDecember 15, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
This is just something I was curious about. I ran my tests and got an answer and now I thought …
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DROP INDEX and CREATE INDEX vs ALTER INDEX REBUILD
2December 11, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
I saw someone ask a few weeks ago if it was faster to drop and re-create an index or do …
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Using a date or int column as the clustered index.
9December 1, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
The other day I was answering a question about clustered indexes and it lead indirectly to a twitter conversation on …
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Adding a column to the primary key.
13November 13, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
Every now and again you realize that the primary key for a table does not uniquely describe a row. Not …
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Force only certain values to be unique
1October 22, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
I thought of something rather interesting the other day while answering a question asking for help with some table structures. …
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Update to “The clustered index columns are in all of the non clustered indexes.”
4October 20, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
I certainly hadn’t planned on creating a part two of my post on clustered index columns but in the comments …
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SchemaBinding – What & Why
10August 6, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
What When you use the SchemaBinding keyword while creating a view or function you bind the structure of any underlying …
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The clustered index columns are in all of the non clustered indexes.
11July 30, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
Did you know that whatever columns you pick as your clustered index will be included in any non clustered indexes …
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