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Uniqueidentifiers, on the other hand, are rarely a good choice for indexes, both clustered and nonclustered.
Random values generated with the
NEWID()
function greatly increase index fragmentation.
Moreover, indexes on uniqueidentifiers decrease the performance of batch operations. Let's look at an example
and create two tables: one with clustered indexes on identity and one on uniqueidentifier columns respectively. In the
next step, we will insert 65,536 rows into both tables. You can see the code for doing this in Listing 6-4.
Listing 6-4.
Uniqueidentifiers: Tables creation
create table dbo.IdentityCI
(
ID int not null identity(1,1),
Val int not null,
Placeholder char(100) null
);
create unique clustered index IDX_IdentityCI_ID
on dbo.IdentityCI(ID);
create table dbo.UniqueidentifierCI
(
ID uniqueidentifier not null
constraint DEF_UniqueidentifierCI_ID
default newid(),
Val int not null,
Placeholder char(100) null,
);
create unique clustered index IDX_UniqueidentifierCI_ID
on dbo.UniqueidentifierCI(ID)
go
set statistics io, time on
;with N1(C) as (select 0 union all select 0) -- 2 rows
,N2(C) as (select 0 from N1 as T1 CROSS JOIN N1 as T2) -- 4 rows
,N3(C) as (select 0 from N2 as T1 CROSS JOIN N2 as T2) -- 16 rows
,N4(C) as (select 0 from N3 as T1 CROSS JOIN N3 as T2) -- 256 rows
,N5(C) as (select 0 from N4 as T1 CROSS JOIN N4 as T2) -- 65,536 rows
,IDs(ID) as (select row_number() over (order by (select NULL)) from N5)
insert into dbo.IdentityCI(Val)
select ID from IDs
;with N1(C) as (select 0 union all select 0) -- 2 rows
,N2(C) as (select 0 from N1 as T1 CROSS JOIN N1 as T2) -- 4 rows
,N3(C) as (select 0 from N2 as T1 CROSS JOIN N2 as T2) -- 16 rows
,N4(C) as (select 0 from N3 as T1 CROSS JOIN N3 as T2) -- 256 rows
,N5(C) as (select 0 from N4 as T1 CROSS JOIN N4 as T2) -- 65,536 rows
,IDs(ID) as (select row_number() over (order by (select NULL)) from N5)
insert into dbo.UniqueidentifierCI(Val)
select ID from IDs
set statistics io, time off
