• The clustered index IS the table. It has at the leaf level all the columns in the table. Hence you added a LOB column to the clustered index (which is why physical stats now shows a LOB_DATA allocation unit) hence the online index rebuild fails.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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