Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 11/30/05 14:01

Dr Warehouse (d.riebeek@reddion.com) writes:
> Thanks. Nonclustered indexes are already on seperate filegroups. Do you
> know wat the difference in locking / performance gain is if the table
> structure stays on the 'old' filegroup (in case of an clustered index
> to a new filegroup) or the table structure is on the new filegroup.

The clustered index is the the table structure, so if you move the
clustered index, there will be nothing left on the old filegroup.


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