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The Guts of Indexing – Part 1

In my last post I used the analogy of a Library to describe indexes.  However, I used very abstract ideas and did not speak to how an index in the database is structure, how it works, etc…  In this post I … Continue reading

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Indexes By Analogy

Recently I ran across a blog which tried to use the analogy of a library to describe the difference between clustered and non-clustered indexes in SQL Server.  I found the post useful as a very general idea of indexes though I thought … Continue reading

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