• Ignore the non-leaf levels unless they're absolutely huge.

    Let me guess, those nonclustered indexes are tiny, just a couple of pages?

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