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?


当前回答

聚集索引: 如果表上不存在聚集索引,主键约束将自动创建聚集索引。聚类索引的实际数据可以存储在索引的叶级。

Non Clustered Index: Actual data of non clustered index is not directly found at leaf node, instead it has to take an additional step to find because it has only values of row locators pointing towards actual data. Non clustered Index can't be sorted as clustered index. There can be multiple non clustered indexes per table, actually it depends on the sql server version we are using. Basically Sql server 2005 allows 249 Non Clustered Indexes and for above versions like 2008, 2016 it allows 999 Non Clustered Indexes per table.

其他回答

聚集索引: 如果表上不存在聚集索引,主键约束将自动创建聚集索引。聚类索引的实际数据可以存储在索引的叶级。

Non Clustered Index: Actual data of non clustered index is not directly found at leaf node, instead it has to take an additional step to find because it has only values of row locators pointing towards actual data. Non clustered Index can't be sorted as clustered index. There can be multiple non clustered indexes per table, actually it depends on the sql server version we are using. Basically Sql server 2005 allows 249 Non Clustered Indexes and for above versions like 2008, 2016 it allows 999 Non Clustered Indexes per table.

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.

使用聚集索引,行按与索引相同的顺序物理存储在磁盘上。因此,只能有一个聚集索引。

对于非聚集索引,有第二个列表,其中包含指向物理行的指针。您可以有许多非聚集索引,尽管每个新索引都会增加写入新记录的时间。

如果想要返回所有列,从聚集索引中读取通常更快。您不必先访问索引,再访问表。

如果需要重新排列数据,则写入具有聚集索引的表可能会较慢。

一个非常简单的、非技术性的经验法则是,聚集索引通常用于主键(或者至少是唯一的列),而非聚集索引用于其他情况(可能是外键)。实际上,SQL Server默认会在你的主键列上创建一个聚集索引。正如您将了解到的,聚类索引与数据在磁盘上物理排序的方式有关,这意味着对于大多数情况,它是一个很好的全面选择。

下面是聚类索引和非聚类索引的一些特征:

聚集索引

聚集索引是唯一标识SQL表中的行的索引。 每个表只能有一个聚集索引。 可以创建包含多个列的聚集索引。例如:create Index index_name(col1, col2, col.....)。 默认情况下,具有主键的列已经具有聚集索引。

非聚簇索引

非聚集索引类似于简单索引。它们只是用于快速检索数据。不一定有唯一的数据。