Answer by Martin Smith for Performance of Non Clustered Indexes on Heaps vs...
Just happened to come across this article from Joe Chang that addresses this question. Pasted his conclusions below.Consider a table for which the indexes have depth 4, so that there is a root level, 2...
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To check your request I created 2 tables following this scheme:7.9 million records representing balance information. an identity field counting from 1 to 7.9 million a number field grouping the records...
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As Kimberly Tripp - the Queen of Indexing - explains quite nicely in her blog post The Clustered Index Debate continues..., having a clustering key on a database table pretty much speeds up all...
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This 2007 White Paper compares the performance for individual select/insert/delete/update and range select statements on a table organized as a clustered index vs that on a table organized as a heap...
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