• In addition to what everyone else has said...

    Someone could explain what thas it´s mean.

    On a performance note it means that you're going to get an index scan instead of a seek.

    "I cant stress enough the importance of switching from a sequential files mindset to set-based thinking. After you make the switch, you can spend your time tuning and optimizing your queries instead of maintaining lengthy, poor-performing code."

    -- Itzik Ben-Gan 2001