• I agree with what everyone has written and, since I didn't see it, I'll add one more thing. The reason you have to be so picky about the clustered index is because you only get one. Further, once you've got a clustered index on the table, any other indexes point to the cluster, not to the data directly (mainly because the clustered index stores the data).

    Ninja made the most important point; test, test, test.

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