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Execution plan Index seek VS Key lookup
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02/05/2011 22:26:20
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Forum:
Microsoft SQL Server
Category:
Indexing
Environment versions
SQL Server:
SQL Server 2008
Application:
Web
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01509137
Message ID:
01509144
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37
>>Index seek is better than Key Lookup. You may find articles by Craig Freedman really helpful.
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>>http://sqlblog.com/blogs/denis_gobo/archive/2008/05/23/6953.aspx
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>>Links to Craig's blog
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>>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/craigfr/
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>>I read the series of different kind of joins, but I think any article by him you read can teach a lot.
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>Thanks, so basically, if the execution plan says Index seek at 4% and Key lookup at 92%, I would have to see what could be done to enhance the query.

Well, you can create covering index, so you will only see index seek. But covering indexes are expensive in terms of insers/updates.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.


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