BANGALORE, INDIA: SQL Server 2008 comes with quite a few new features that have more stress on query performance such as filtered index. In this article, we will see how exactly filter indexes help ...

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So defining it as a sparse column and creating a filtered index will enable SQL Server to optimize access to this column and also save space. Now this actually is a violation of the normalization ...