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title: "What are the different types of Indexes available in SQL Server?"  
description: "What are the different types of Indexes available in SQL Server?"  
author: "Chris Anderson"  
published: 2011-08-12  
updated: 2020-09-22  
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# What are the different types of Indexes available in SQL Server?

The simplest answer to this is “**Clustered and Non-Clustered Indexes**”. There are other types of Indexes what can be mentioned such as Unique, XML, Spatial and Filtered Indexes. More on these Indexes later.

## Answers

### Answer by Chris Anderson

The simplest answer to this is “**Clustered and Non-Clustered Indexes**”. There are other types of Indexes what can be mentioned such as Unique, XML, Spatial and Filtered Indexes. More on these Indexes later.


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