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When creating an index in SQL Server you can set the sort order to either ascending or descending. What effect does this have to your queries? When would it make sense to use descending?
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Here is the query:
INSERT INTO @TempTable
SELECT UserID,
Name,
Address1 =
(SELECT TOP 1 [Address] FROM
(SELECT TOP 1 [Address] FROM [UserAddress] ua INNER JOIN UserAddressOrder uo ON ua.UserID = uo.UserID WHERE ua.UserID = u.UserID
ORDER BY uo.AddressOrder ASC) q
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