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sgondesi
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Posted - 2013-11-19 : 08:34:30
Somebody please tell me
What a bookmark lookup is?

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visakh16
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Posted - 2013-11-19 : 09:13:23
You find bookmark lookup usualy in execution plan when you've to retrive lot of information from tables after seraching based on set of column values. the column values may be obtained from indexes but for the associated other information it requires a lookup using these index column values. Thats when it goes for bookmark lookup.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms180920(v=sql.105).aspx

some cases you may be able to avoid lookup by create covering non clustered index which covers all columns used by the query or by including additional columns as included columns if they cant be directly added to index due to thier types.

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sgondesi
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Posted - 2013-11-19 : 11:25:15
Thanks for the reply.

I will look at that site.

I have one more doubt.

you mentioned in your post that some columns cannot be added directly to indexes due to their types.

is this due to the limit of index column length i.e 900 bytes?

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visakh16
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Posted - 2013-11-20 : 02:09:41
quote:
Originally posted by sgondesi

Thanks for the reply.

I will look at that site.to indexes due to their types.


I have one more doubt.

you mentioned in your post that some columns cannot be added directly
is this due to the limit of index column length i.e 900 bytes?

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yes and also due to datatype of columns like image,text etc

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sgondesi
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Posted - 2013-11-20 : 03:53:00
Ya thank you sir.

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visakh16
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Posted - 2013-11-20 : 03:59:55
you're welcome

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sgondesi
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Posted - 2013-11-20 : 09:52:42
When a clustered index is created on a table, then the table is organized into a b-tree.

what are the contents of the root node of that b-tree?

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sgondesi
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Posted - 2013-11-22 : 03:50:11
Somebody please help me..

When a clustered index is created on a table, then the table is organized into a b-tree.

what are the contents of the root node of that b-tree?


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visakh16
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Posted - 2013-11-22 : 06:47:08
quote:
Originally posted by sgondesi

Somebody please help me..

When a clustered index is created on a table, then the table is organized into a b-tree.

what are the contents of the root node of that b-tree?


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all except leaf nodes will have index information. leaf nodes will contain actual data pages.

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sgondesi
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Posted - 2013-11-22 : 08:08:36
ya..
I have read that leaf level will consist of the data pages.
Also read that the intermediate level nodes will contain the (key,value) pairs.
Does this key and value is the index key and the column value on which the clustered index is created?

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sgondesi
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Posted - 2013-11-25 : 04:36:11
I request somebody to respond to my post.
Thank you.

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visakh16
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Posted - 2013-11-25 : 05:19:58
see

https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/learn-sql-server/effective-clustered-indexes/

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sgondesi
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Posted - 2013-11-25 : 07:32:25
thank you sir.
i will read from that website and i will get back to you.

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denis_the_thief
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Posted - 2013-11-25 : 10:08:52
quote:
Originally posted by sgondesi

I request somebody to respond to my post.
Thank you.

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Please don't write posts like this. It is optional for members to respond.
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sgondesi
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Posted - 2013-11-25 : 10:17:09
I am Sorry.
I will not repeat here after.

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sgondesi
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Posted - 2013-11-27 : 10:28:07
quote:
Originally posted by visakh16

see

https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/learn-sql-server/effective-clustered-indexes/

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Thanks for the link sir. It helped me a lot in understanding indexing.

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sgondesi
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Posted - 2013-11-29 : 06:49:00
hello everyone..
I have an issue..
If we have a primary key column in our table, will the table still be organized into a heap without creation of an index on that table.

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sgondesi
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Posted - 2013-11-29 : 07:28:31
one more doubt..

Non clustered Index with clustered index is effective or non clustered index with heap is effective?

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denis_the_thief
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Posted - 2013-11-29 : 11:38:07
quote:
Originally posted by sgondesi

hello everyone..
I have an issue..
If we have a primary key column in our table, will the table still be organized into a heap without creation of an index on that table.





- A Primary Key is an index
- By default a Primary Key is a Clustered Index
- You can choose to have a table with indexes an a Primary Key as a heap - as long as none of the indexes are Clustered and the Primary Key would have to declared as nonclustered
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visakh16
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Posted - 2013-11-30 : 02:20:35
quote:
Originally posted by sgondesi

one more doubt..

Non clustered Index with clustered index is effective or non clustered index with heap is effective?

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Srikar Reddy Gondesi,
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see this white paper which compares both scenarios

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc917672.aspx

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sgondesi
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Posted - 2013-12-02 : 05:09:22
quote:
Originally posted by denis_the_thief

quote:
Originally posted by sgondesi

hello everyone..
I have an issue..
If we have a primary key column in our table, will the table still be organized into a heap without creation of an index on that table.





- A Primary Key is an index
- By default a Primary Key is a Clustered Index
- You can choose to have a table with indexes an a Primary Key as a heap - as long as none of the indexes are Clustered and the Primary Key would have to declared as nonclustered


Thanks for the response.
So with having a primary key column in the table, can we create a clustered index on any other column in the same table?

this is one query.
and i did not understand the third point in your post.

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