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A database index is a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval operations on a database table at the cost of additional writes and storage space to maintain the index data structure. Indexes are used to quickly locate data without having to search every row in a database table every time said table is accessed.
Microsoft SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) is a Master Data Management (MDM) product from Microsoft that ships as a part of the Microsoft SQL Server relational database management system. [1] Master data management (MDM) allows an organization to discover and define non-transactional lists of data, and compile maintainable, reliable master ...
Microsoft SQL Server (Structured Query Language) is a proprietary relational database management system developed by Microsoft.As a database server, it is a software product with the primary function of storing and retrieving data as requested by other software applications—which may run either on the same computer or on another computer across a network (including the Internet).
The simplest form of index is a sorted list of values that can be searched using a binary search with an adjacent reference to the location of the entry, analogous to the index in the back of a book. The same data can have multiple indexes (an employee database could be indexed by last name and hire date). Indexes affect performance, but not ...
In database management systems, a reverse key index strategy reverses the key value before entering it in the index. [1] E.g., the value 24538 becomes 83542 in the index. Reversing the key value is particularly useful for indexing data such as sequence numbers , where each new key value is greater than the prior value, i.e., values ...
A bitmap index is a special kind of database index that uses bitmaps. Bitmap indexes have traditionally been considered to work well for low- cardinality columns , which have a modest number of distinct values, either absolutely, or relative to the number of records that contain the data.
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In SQL Server, this type of index is called a filtered index. [1] Partial indexes have been supported in PostgreSQL since version 7.2, released in February 2002. [2] SQLite supports partial indexes since version 3.8.0. [3] MongoDB supports partial indexes since version 3.2. [4]