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  • November 15, 2017 at 7:46 am

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    Luis Cazares - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 7:41 AM

    ChrisM@Work - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 7:01 AM

    Here's a reminder of the issues you may experience if you're performing deletes from your heap table:

    https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/sql/t-sql-programming/delete-operation-sql-server-heaps/

    Thank you, Chris.
    This will be really useful when advocating the use of clustered indexes

    You're welcome Luis. It's easily forgotten and occasionally causes runaway table bloat.

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