SQLpassion BLOG

Vote for my precon workshop for PASS SQLRally

I’m one of the 3 lucky guys whose submitted precon workshop for the developer category for PASS SQLRally is in the final selection for community voting! 🙂 Here’s the abstract that I have submitted which gives you a good overview what I’m talking about, and what you’ll learn in my precon. If you think this …

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Unique and non-unique non-clustered indexes on a non-unique clustered index

In the last weblog post I have talked about the differences in unique and non-unique non-clustered indexes on a unique clustered index. In this weblog post I want to talk about the differences of non-clustered indexes defined on a non-unique clustered index. As you already know from this posting, SQL Server handles non-unique clustered indexes …

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Unique and non-unique non-clustered indexes on a unique clustered index

In the last weblog post I have talked about the difference of unique and non-unique clustered indexes. As you have seen SQL Server uses an internal overhead of 4 bytes (the so-called uniquifier) to make non-unique clustered index rows unique. Today I want to work out the difference between unique and non-unique non-clustered indexes defined …

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Unique and non-unique SQL Server indexes on a heap table

In the upcoming weblog postings I want to work out the differences between unique and non-unique indexes in SQL Server. I assume that you already know the concepts about clustered- and non clustered indexes and how they are used in SQL Server. In the past I’ve done a lot of trainings and consulting regarding SQL …

Unique and non-unique SQL Server indexes on a heap table + read more