Increasing performance by covering index
Before discussing covering index further, it should be understood that a covering index is not a separate type of index that has a different internal structure and algorithm. It is just a technique that is used to boost up the performance of data retrieval for the table.
You may wonder If it is not a new type of index, why do we need to use it?
Run the same SELECT query that we ran earlier in the Increasing performance by creating non-clustered index section, which was creating the non-clustered index seek operation. But now, run this query with some more fields in the SELECT clause, may be like this:
--running the same query we ran earlier to see behavior after --Non-Clustered Index was created with just ...
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