I have a large table (around 100 million rows). I am trying to optimize searches. Most of my searches use two columns: bar nvarchar(64) and foo nvarchar(64).
I am only interested in foo when:
foo = 'string01'
OR
foo = 'string02'
OR
foo IS NULL
I was thinking on creating the following non clustered index:
CREATE INDEX ixbar
ON myTable (bar)
INCLUDE (foo)
WHERE foo IN ('string01', 'string02') OR foo IS NULL
But the OR statement is not allowed in a WHERE clause for an index. This makes me think that probably I am not approaching this correctly.
I would appreciate any suggestion on the most efficient way of doing this.
Thank you!