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One of the issues that seem to come up time and time again, is the lack of a basic index strategy. Many Windows Azure SQL Databases fail under load because they lack indexes.

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200163425-001.tif There are times on Azure SQL Database when tables get to a certain size and that trying to create indexes results in timeouts.

A few months ago when I started to get these famous timeouts, I had reached 10 million records and I felt like I was looking for a needle in a hay stack!

This blog post is all about creating NONCLUSTERED INDEXES, I will try to go over best practices and reasons to keep in mind when you use them in Azure SQL Database.

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