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Designing and Implementing SQL Server Database Indexes
This course is an introduction to SQL Server indexes. In this course, you will be covering common index types and discussing how to index to support your workloads.
Intermediate
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Designing and Implementing SQL Server Database Indexes
This course is an introduction to SQL Server indexes. In this course, you will be covering common index types and discussing how to index to support your workloads.
Intermediate
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What you'll learn
Poor database performance is a problem for applications and annoys users. Poor performance often comes down to poor indexing of critical tables. In this course, Designing and Implementing SQL Server Database Indexes, you'll gain knowledge on how to avoid these issues through the effective use of SQL Server database indexes. First, you'll discover the main index types that SQL Server has. Next, you'll explore considerations for their use. Finally, you'll learn how to choose indexes and index keys to best support your applications. When you've finished this course, you'll be in a good position to optimize all of your SQL Server databases and improve your applications' speed and throughput.
Designing and Implementing SQL Server Database Indexes
Intermediate
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Gail Shaw is a Data Platform MVP and holds the MCM certification for SQL Server. Her specialties are in performance tuning and database recovery for SQL Server. She is a frequent poster on the SQL Server Central forums, writes articles for both SQLServerCentral.com and Simple-Talk.com, and often speaks at SQLBits and the PASS Community Summit.