I remember from my Sybase days that SQL Server tables could support up to 255 indexes. One clustered index and 254 non-clustered indexes. In Microsoft SQL Server that changed to just 249 non ...

So for a table with nine non-clustered indexes on it there are 10 writes ... do my end users care that it's slowing my SQL Server down? The answer here is probably not, unless there's a really ...

In addition, the SQL Server 2000 query engine will use enhanced read-ahead and scan to improve scalability — another motive to move to EE. Indexed views are views with a clustered index.

In fact, a view really doesn’t do anything until you query it. In SQL Server 2000 and 2005, you have the ability to add indexes to views. But, if a view is just a stored query definition in the ...