Creating an index on a BIT column

I had an issue with indexing a BIT column in SQL Server 2000. Every book and
newsgroup I read said that you cannot do this. But you actually can!
Refer to this website:
http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2530Please don't post independently in separate newsgroups. You can add
multiple newsgroups to the header and then all the answers appear as one.
See my reply in the other newsgroup.
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
"Anonymous" <Anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I had an issue with indexing a BIT column in SQL Server 2000. Every book
>and
> newsgroup I read said that you cannot do this. But you actually can!
> Refer to this website:
> http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2530
>
>|||It is well known, that a BIT column cannot be indexed in SQL Server 7.0
or earlier. As of SQL Server 2000 this was changed, and you can now also
index BIT column(s).
Note that in many situations, indexing a BIT column is not useful. Only
if the data distribution is very skewed (many 0's, few 1's or vice
versa) will the optimizer consider using the index.
HTH,
Gert-Jan
Anonymous wrote:
> I had an issue with indexing a BIT column in SQL Server 2000. Every book a
nd
> newsgroup I read said that you cannot do this. But you actually can!
> Refer to this website:
> http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2530