Creating Covering Indexes - That much easier with SS 2005

Creating Covering Indexes - That much easier with SS 2005http://sqladvice.com/blogs/repeatableread/archive/2006/06/13/18650.aspxIndex Tuning is something that I _really_ enjoy - mostly because I just love seeing performance improvements. It's always exciting to see tangible improvements in existing systems. Recently while looking into a query that was causing a lot of reads forenCommunityServer 2.1 (Build: 60809.935)re: Creating Covering Indexes - That much easier with SS 2005http://sqladvice.com/blogs/repeatableread/archive/2006/06/13/18650.aspx#26093Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:08:48 GMT81c49694-04ec-4285-ae1c-61808dc1a845:26093dmarkle<p>SS 2005 definitely is nicer.  Another thing to mention as well would be its new "included columns" feature, which saves you from some of the overhead of maintaining lower-order index keys just to include them in the query output.</p>