What is Bookmark Lookup and why can it cause performance problems?

Entry MS SQL

Answer

Bookmark lookup occurs when SQL uses a non-clustered index but must fetch extra columns from the base table.

This becomes slow when many rows match, increasing I/O and reducing performance.

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