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Improve Query Performance by Using an Index

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What you'll do

In this challenge, you will configure an Azure SQL database to use an index to improve performance.

  1. Access a pre-existing Azure SQL database
  2. Run a query to stress test the database
  3. Configure an index to improve the performance of the query
  4. Run the stress test query again
  5. Verify that the performance improved

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