• Asking what is probably an obvious question, but from what I understand:

    Adding a clustered index that covers multiple columns within a table is not necessarily advantageous, because it will expand all of the non-clustered indexes as well. (from part II)

    Therefore, the clustered index should be as narrow as possible, and the non-clustered index should be created as a composite key to assist with querying?

    So if I have a heap that only has a unique value by combining three separate columns, I should create a new column with a unique value (using newsequentialid() or some such) and make that the clustered index, but use the composite non-clustered index to help my queries against the table?

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