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Covering Indexes

List down the advantage and disadvantages of Covering indexes.
Asked by: psingla | Member Since Mar-2010 | Asked on: Mar 9th, 2010

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Covering Indexes are useful for Input / Output intensive workloads.
Covering indexes are smaller in size
Covering Indexes are sorted by values
It is easier to cache date in Covering Indexes

Covering Indexes cannot be used to select all the columns / entire table.

  
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