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Creating Indexes and Database Diagramming

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Now that we’ve created the tables, we could stop at this point and just work with our data from here. However, this would not be a good decision. As soon as any table contained a reasonable amount of information, and we wished to find a particular record, it would take SQL Server a fair amount of time to locate it. Performance would suffer, and our users would soon get annoyed with the slowdown in speed.

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(2008). Creating Indexes and Database Diagramming. In: Beginning SQL Server 2008 for Developers. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0584-5_6

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