• The leaf level of the clustered index are data pages (and are not necessarily stored in physical order). The non-leaf levels of the clustered index are index pages. Leaf and non-leaf levels of nonclustered indexes are index pages

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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