Summary

Congratulations, you made it to the end of the day. In this lesson, you have learned quite a bit about indexes, what different types exist, and how to create them. In addition, you also took a quick look at some of the tools available to you to see how the server executes a query and what statistics are generated when the query is run. Finally, you saw how the Execution Plan option in the Query Analyzer displays graphically how the server actually executes a query.

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