CHAPTER 5

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Nonclustered Indexes

This chapter discusses nonclustered indexes, which is the second type of indexes supported by the In-Memory OLTP Engine. It shows how to define nonclustered indexes, talks about their SARGability rules, and explains their internal structure.

Working with Nonclustered Indexes

Nonclustered indexes are another type of indexes supported by the In-Memory OLTP Engine. In contrast to hash indexes, which are optimized to support point-lookup equality searches, nonclustered indexes help you search data based on a range of values. They have a somewhat similar structure to regular indexes on on-disk tables. They are not exactly ...

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