is primary key compulsary in clustering?

  • Can we fing clusters of following data?

    Id P1 P2

    x 5.6 4.5

    x 1.6 4.5

    y 5.6 4.5

    having 2 clusters?

  • - your primary key hasn't to be your clustered index

    - only one clustered index per table.

  • vnj (1/13/2012)


    Can we fing clusters of following data?

    Id P1 P2

    x 5.6 4.5

    x 1.6 4.5

    y 5.6 4.5

    having 2 clusters?

    I think original poster is referring to "clusters" on its data mining meaning, as in "data clustering" as opposed to "clustered/non-clustered indexes".

    Having said that, PKs are created to enforce uniqueness on a column or combination of columns, more related to referential integrity than to data mining - you can do "data clustering" in an indexless, PKless table.

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