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  • January 9, 2013 at 10:18 pm

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    ScottPletcher (1/9/2013)

    Don't automatically assume the PK makes the best, or even a good, clustered index, in particular if the PK is an identity column.

    Considering that the IDENTITY column is frequently the only column that meets the best conditions of "narrow, unique, and ever increasing", I'm not sure why you'd say such a thing. At best, "It Depends".

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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