• Define a clustered index on the column that appears most frequently in the WHERE clause of SELECT

    statements.

    But not in JOIN criteria? No, no way. The basic rule for clusters should be the most frequently used access path to the data. This may be primary keys, this may be foreign keys, or it might be simply search criteria, but I wouldn't suggest limiting it to WHERE clauses.

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