• if the query has a WHERE statement, you could make the arguments non-SARG-able, and force it to use a table scan, but it would still use an index(probably the clustered index) to gather the data;

    if you want to avoid a specific index you can use a hint to tell it a specific index to use instead.

    Lowell


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