Agenda
•Index Structures
•Primary Key and Clustered Index
•Constraints and Indexes
•Syntax for creating and managing indexes
•Special Indexes
•Index Access Methods
•DMVs for Index tuning
Index Structures
1. A heap is a table without a clustered index.
2. Relationship between sys.indexes, sys.partitions, and sys.allocation_units
3. Clustered Index
Clustered index physically stores the data in sorted order
4. Nonclustered index
5. Structure of Index Pages