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    That's no more than an educated estimate of the point where fragmentation will start to have a noticeable effect on range scans from disk. It is not the point where an index seek is cheaper than a table scan (which could be anything from a few pages to never, depending on covering state of index and count of rows returned)

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