Can I index a RowVersion column

Hi
In order to track changes in tables I was going to add a RowVersion to each affected table. Then at a certain point in time take the max rowversion used in the table and store it. Some time in the future I can then query a table and find all the rows that
have change since my last check.
In order to make this perform well, I was going to add indexes to these tables based on the RowVersion column. Would this be a bad idea as this column is frequently changing?
Thanks for your help
Graham

Why do you need to use rowversion for this? Why not set
a datetime field like datemodified for this? That will have much more clarity and you would still be able to get
incremental details from it. rowversion is used mostly during
concurrent DML operations to see if copy we had on hand is latest copy of record or does an update has happen since then.
Indexing it in any case would be bad as any changes in any of data in table (or even false update) can cause it to change its value which would cause index to be frequently updated.
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