• @SQLSACT please answer WolfgangE re: whether the table accepts updates. Also, does the table accept deletes? You could be seeing a spreading out of the index on disk due to page splits from updates. That coupled with the case of many new inserts, and deletes of older rows where the page is not completely emptied by the delete. What is the current page density of the index?

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