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One of the key components of SQL Server that allows your queries to return data quickly is the indexes you place on your tables.

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  1. Speedily; with haste or celerity. Quickly he walked with pale face downward bent. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 169.
  2. Soon; without delay. John Earl of Heynault had quickly enough of the King of France, and was soon after reconciled to his Brother King Edward. Baker, Chronicles, p. 118.
  3. As if living; in a lifelike manner; to the life. Whereon stode a lybbard, crownyd with golde and stones, Terrible of countenaunce and passynge formydable, As quikly towchyd as it were flesshe and bones. Skelton, Garlande of Laurell, l. 592.

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  • The tragedy of losing homes quickly translates into the loss of a cohesive culture, as more people consider moving away and fully integrating into mainstream America. —  NOLA Indymedia
  • This quickly translates into the idea that if anyone portrays anyone or anything on the rez, they are transgressors. —  prairiemary
  • So we don't really have any inventory issues in automotive it's extremely responsive to the market, so the end-market trend is really critical and it really means that we are tracking sales of vehicles around the world that very quickly translates into production of vehicles and very quickly translates into sales of our products into the Tier 1. —  Telecom Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
  • One of the key components of SQL Server that allows your queries to return data quickly is the indexes you place on your tables. —  SQLServerCentral.com Articles
  • The Sunni Arab militias, dubbed Awakening Councils or Majalis al Sahwa in Arabic, quickly found U.S. backing and spread across Iraq. —  Assyrian International News Agency
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  1. from Middle English quykly, quicliche, cwicliche; from quick + -ly.
 

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