Getting a query to index seek (rather than scan)

Question

Running the following query (SQL Server 2000) the execution plan shows that it used an index seek and Profiler shows it\'s doing 71 reads with a duration of 0.

Answer 1

If the name column is NVARCHAR then u need your parameter to be also of the same type. It should then pick it up by index seek.

declare @p nvarchar(20)
select @p = N'0010000546163'
select top 1 id from table where name = @p order by id desc