• IF and only if ABC.COLUMN2 is a (very) large column, and ABC.COLUMN1 is used by itself a lot, it might be worthwhile to keep both indexes.

    You should also review sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats to see how often, and in what ways, each index is currently being used.

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