Overview
Think of the indexes you might see in your everyday life—those in books and other documents. Suppose that you’re trying to create an index in SQL Server using the CREATE INDEX statement and you’re using two SQL Server references to find out how to write the statement. One reference is the (hypothetical) Microsoft SQL Server Transact-SQL Language Reference Manual, which we’ll refer to as the “T-SQL Reference.” Assume that this book is just an alphabetical list of all the SQL Server keywords, commands, procedures, and functions. The other reference is this book: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals. You can find information quickly in either book about indexes, even though the two books are organized differently.
In the T-SQL Reference, all ...
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