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Indexing Myths and Best Practices

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In the past few chapters, we’ve defined indexes and showed how they are structured. In the upcoming chapters, you’ll be looking at strategies to build indexes and ensure that they behave as expected. In this chapter, we’ll dispel some common myths and show how to build the foundation for creating indexes.

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Strate, J. (2019). Indexing Myths and Best Practices. In: Expert Performance Indexing in SQL Server 2019. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5464-6_8

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