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Thread: Indexes in primary keys

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    Indexes in primary keys

    I have a 3rd party app which had a primary key with about 5 fields. The last field of this was a trantype. This app had a posting process which uses this in it's sql. Ran rather slow. We added an individual index to this field and cut processing down 90%. It almost seemded like sl server was ignoring this index. Is this because it was the last field in the primary key index?

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    Exactly right. It was actually much faster for SQL Server to scan the whole table instead of the composite index, so that was what it was doing.

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