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I’ve read the documentation on the MSDN, but it doesn’t answer what I’m after. If I create an index on specified columns using a WHERE clause for certain IDs, will this index include any new IDs that are inserted into the database? Or will it only add those records with the IDs in the WHERE clause?
Let’s assume that you’re creating an index to eliminate NULL values from a column (one of the classic examples). As new values come in that are not NULL, they will be added to the index in the same way as any non-filtered index. But any new NULL values will not be added to the index because you’ve created it in such a way as to filter out NULL values. Any other filters you apply will work exactly the same way, including or excluding values as they get added/updated based on the criteria of the WHERE clause defined within the index.