I need to create an index to stop a lookup

  • I have look up which is due to col 1,2,3,4 in the select list.

    There is already a nonclusterd index on col 1 and is 900 varchar, so i need to use included col in ordwer to make the index work other wise it is to big.

    If I drop that index and create a new one on col 1 using include on col on 2,3,4 will it the index be use it?

    None of these col are being used in the where clause.

    THANKS

  • Please post query, table definitions, index definitions and execution plan, as per http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral/66909/

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  • Thanks got to work,

    there was no clustered index on the table.....soon as I added that they col were grabbed by clustered index seek.

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