What is meant by indexing?



What is meant by indexing?..

Answer / Gulwaiz Akhter

Indexing in SQL Server involves creating an additional data structure to speed up the retrieval of rows from a table. An index contains one or more columns of the table's data and can be used to locate specific rows quickly, especially when searching for values based on the indexed column.

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