The clustered index is more like the table of contents. It’s the logical order the data is stored in. Because the actual data is also stored in the clustered index, the correct analogy for this type ...

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Okay, the clustered index only had 23% fragmentation so the recommendation was to reorganize rather than rebuild the index which executes a light-weight defrag process. Trouble was, when we ran the ...