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Non-clustered indexes can be numerous in SQL Server 2008 I remember from my Sybase days that SQL Server tables could support up to 255 indexes. One clustered index and 254 non-clustered indexes. In ...

It is usually a good idea to index columns that contain primary keys since they are unique and can often be referred to by row numbers. You can create a nonclustered index faster by selecting only the ...

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