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Why a table can have only single clustered index ?

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Why a table can have only single clustered index ?
posted Jan 19, 2014 by Atul Mishra

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A clustered index sorts and stores the data rows in the table based on the index key values. Therefore only one clustered index can be created on each table because the data rows themselves can only be sorted in one order.

answer Jan 26, 2014 by Neeraj Pandey
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