-- which allows for fast searching for all pages under example.com with the
-- clause:
-- WHERE el_index LIKE 'http://com.example.%'
- el_index nvarchar(450) NOT NULL
+ el_index nvarchar(450) NOT NULL,
+
+ -- This is el_index truncated to 60 bytes to allow for sortable queries that
+ -- aren't supported by a partial index.
+ -- @todo Drop the default once this is deployed everywhere and code is populating it.
+ el_index_60 varbinary(60) NOT NULL default ''
);
CREATE INDEX /*i*/el_from ON /*_*/externallinks (el_from);
CREATE INDEX /*i*/el_index ON /*_*/externallinks (el_index);
+CREATE INDEX /*i*/el_index_60 ON /*_*/externallinks (el_index_60, el_id);
+CREATE INDEX /*i*/el_from_index_60 ON /*_*/externallinks (el_from, el_index_60, el_id);
-- el_to index intentionally not added; we cannot index nvarchar(max) columns,
-- but we also cannot restrict el_to to a smaller column size as the external
-- link may be larger.