Use the following general guidelines:
If you plan to do manual insertions into the IDENTITY column, create a unique index to ensure that the inserts do not assign a value that has already been used.
A column that is often accessed in sorted order, that is, specified in the order by clause, probably should be indexed so that Adaptive Server can take advantage of the indexed order.
Columns that are regularly used in joins should always be indexed, since the system can perform the join faster if the columns are in sorted order.
The column that stores the primary key of the table often has a clustered index, especially if it is frequently joined to columns in other tables. Remember, there can be only one clustered index per table.
A column that is often searched for ranges of values might be a good choice for a clustered index. Once the row with the first value in the range is found, rows with subsequent values are guaranteed to be physically adjacent. A clustered index does not offer as much of an advantage for searches on single values.
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