Using the checksum function to increase performance

Suppose you have a table with a relatively long string and you want to search on it. An index is not an ideal solution since it will be very big. Here is my suggestion, which works with SQL Server 2000 only!

1. Table structure:

Create table testTable (k int identity not null,
  allType sql_Variant,
  BigStr varchar(100))

2. Add CheckSum support:

alter table testTable add cs as checksum(BigStr)

3. Create an index on the computed column:

create index idx_testTb_cs on testTable (cs)

4. Now, the select statement:

select * from testTable 
where cs = checksum ('cccccccccccccccccccccc')
and bigStr = 'cccccccccccccccccccccc'

Note: 'ccccccccccccccccc' is an example of a given long string value.

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