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CREATE UNIQUE INDEX ( department ) ON tbl_employee ; If a Teradata SQL request uses secondary index values in a WHERE constraint, the optimizer may use the rowID in a secondary index subtable to access the qualifying rows in the data table. If a secondary index is used only periodically by certain applications and is not routinely used by most applications, disk space can be saved by creating the index when it is needed and dropping it immediately after use. A unique secondary index is very efficient, it typically allows access of only two AMPs, requires no spool file, and has one row per value, therefore, when a unique secondary index is used to access a row, two AMPs are involved. Unique secondary indexes can thus improve performance by avoiding the overhead of scanning all AMPs. Relates Posts All about Secondary Indexes in Teradata