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Managing Indexes

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Indexes assist with query processing by speeding up access to the data stored in tables and views. Indexes allow for ordered access to data based on an ordering of data rows. These rows are ordered based upon the values stored in certain columns. These columns comprise the index key columns, and their values (for any given row) are a row’s index key.

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Brimhall, J., Dye, D., Gennick, J., Roberts, A., Sheffield, W. (2012). Managing Indexes. In: SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Recipes. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4201-7_16

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