What is an index?

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What is an index?..

Answer / krishna chaithanya

index allows to search record in a table making the search
meachnism faster and effective

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What is an index?..

Answer / sanjay mukati

Index is a such type of mechanism in which records are
searched and fetched efficiently and fastly in a table. It
is physical address of data.

Two type of index :
A. Cluster Index
B. Noncluster Index

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What is an index?..

Answer / dharmendra k dixit

INDEX are physical address of data, its is same just we
Have indexes in our Book..through this we can make our
search much faster.
in Idle way always try to make Indexes on that Column which
have Integer Value(i.e. Not on text type).
There are two types of Indexes in SQL SEREVR
1. Clusterd Index.(Create automatically if there is a
Primary key on Table)
2. Non Clusterd Index.

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What is an index?..

Answer / mandar kavishwar

Indexes in databases are similar to indexes in books. In a
database,an index allows the database program to find data
in a table without
scanning the entire table.
There are two types of Index in MS-SQL.
1.Clustered
2.Non-Clustered
In MS-SQL Server 2005,
Only 1 Clustered & 249 Non-Clustered Possible.So (Total 250)
But in MS-SQL Server 2008,
Only 1 Clustered & 999 Non-Clustered Possible.(Total 1000)

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What is an index?..

Answer / sovan guha

An index is a physical structure containing pointer to the
data.Index are created in an existing table to locate rows
more efficiently and quickly.

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What is an index?..

Answer / aman popli

Indexes in SQL Server are similar to the indexes in books.
They help SQL Server retrieve
the data quickly.

There are clustered and nonclustered indexes.
A clustered index is a special type of index
that reorders the way in which records in the table are
physically stored. Therefore table
can have only one clustered index. The leaf nodes of a
clustered index contain the data
pages.
A nonclustered index is a special type of index in which
the logical order of the index
does not match the physical stored order of the rows on
disk. The leaf node of a
nonclustered index does not consist of the data pages.
Instead, the leaf nodes contain
index rows.

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What is an index?..

Answer / shrikant kalwade

Index means we create unique id to record in to the table.

primary key is example of index; using proper index we
search perticular record from database fast and accurate.

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What is an index?..

Answer / nalini

index is a physical address of the data.Index having 2
types.
1) cluster index
2)nonclustered index

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