我对DB的接触有限,只是作为应用程序程序员使用过DB。我想知道关于聚集和非聚集索引。
我在谷歌上搜索了一下,我发现:
A clustered index is a special type of index that reorders the way
records in the table are physically
stored. Therefore table can have only
one clustered index. The leaf nodes
of a clustered index contain the data
pages. A nonclustered index is a
special type of index in which the
logical order of the index does not
match the physical stored order of
the rows on disk. The leaf node of a
nonclustered index does not consist of
the data pages. Instead, the leaf
nodes contain index rows.
我在SO中发现的是聚集索引和非聚集索引之间的区别是什么?
有人能用通俗易懂的语言解释一下吗?
聚集索引意味着您告诉数据库在磁盘上存储实际上彼此接近的接近值。这样做的好处是可以快速扫描/检索某些聚集索引值范围内的记录。
例如,你有两个表,Customer和Order:
Customer
----------
ID
Name
Address
Order
----------
ID
CustomerID
Price
如果希望快速检索某个特定客户的所有订单,则可能希望在订单表的“CustomerID”列上创建聚集索引。这样,具有相同CustomerID的记录将在物理上彼此靠近地存储在磁盘上(集群),从而加快了它们的检索速度。
附注:CustomerID上的索引显然不是唯一的,因此您要么需要添加第二个字段来“唯一”索引,要么让数据库为您处理,但这是另一回事。
Regarding multiple indexes. You can have only one clustered index per table because this defines how the data is physically arranged. If you wish an analogy, imagine a big room with many tables in it. You can either put these tables to form several rows or pull them all together to form a big conference table, but not both ways at the same time. A table can have other indexes, they will then point to the entries in the clustered index which in its turn will finally say where to find the actual data.