Cluster Index Without Primary Key

I have a SQL Server 2000 database with cluster and non-cluster indexes.
What advantages do you gain from creating a primary key as a cluster index.
If you were a cluster index without primary key what overhead goes along
with this process?
Thanks,the clustered index creates an object where the physical order of rows
is the same as the indexed order of the rows.
a primary key creates a unique index on that column. generally
speaking a clustered unique index provides much faster query times than
a nonclustered index.
overhead produced by any index will be filesize creating the new page
set for that particular index.|||Joe K. wrote:
> I have a SQL Server 2000 database with cluster and non-cluster
> indexes.
> What advantages do you gain from creating a primary key as a cluster
> index. If you were a cluster index without primary key what overhead
> goes along with this process?
> Thanks,
Keys are logical concepts. Indexes are physical constructs. That fact that
primary keys and unique constraints use indexes for enforcement should not
confuse the issue. Design you keys as the business requires in your logical
data model.
Add indexes where the addition of the index helps query performance. The
choice of whether a particular index should be clustered (only 1 per table)
or non-clustered should be clearly examined on a table by table basis.
Here's a good start:
http://www.sql-server-performance.com/clustered_indexes.asp
David Gugick
Quest Software|||that is a great article that david has given you.sqlsql

Cluster Index Without Primary Key

I have a SQL Server 2000 database with cluster and non-cluster indexes.
What advantages do you gain from creating a primary key as a cluster index.
If you were a cluster index without primary key what overhead goes along
with this process?
Thanks,the clustered index creates an object where the physical order of rows
is the same as the indexed order of the rows.
a primary key creates a unique index on that column. generally
speaking a clustered unique index provides much faster query times than
a nonclustered index.
overhead produced by any index will be filesize creating the new page
set for that particular index.|||Joe K. wrote:
> I have a SQL Server 2000 database with cluster and non-cluster
> indexes.
> What advantages do you gain from creating a primary key as a cluster
> index. If you were a cluster index without primary key what overhead
> goes along with this process?
> Thanks,
Keys are logical concepts. Indexes are physical constructs. That fact that
primary keys and unique constraints use indexes for enforcement should not
confuse the issue. Design you keys as the business requires in your logical
data model.
Add indexes where the addition of the index helps query performance. The
choice of whether a particular index should be clustered (only 1 per table)
or non-clustered should be clearly examined on a table by table basis.
Here's a good start:
http://www.sql-server-performance.c...red_indexes.asp
David Gugick
Quest Software|||that is a great article that david has given you.

Cluster Index Without Primary Key

I have a SQL Server 2000 database with cluster and non-cluster indexes.
What advantages do you gain from creating a primary key as a cluster index.
If you were a cluster index without primary key what overhead goes along
with this process?
Thanks,
the clustered index creates an object where the physical order of rows
is the same as the indexed order of the rows.
a primary key creates a unique index on that column. generally
speaking a clustered unique index provides much faster query times than
a nonclustered index.
overhead produced by any index will be filesize creating the new page
set for that particular index.
|||Joe K. wrote:
> I have a SQL Server 2000 database with cluster and non-cluster
> indexes.
> What advantages do you gain from creating a primary key as a cluster
> index. If you were a cluster index without primary key what overhead
> goes along with this process?
> Thanks,
Keys are logical concepts. Indexes are physical constructs. That fact that
primary keys and unique constraints use indexes for enforcement should not
confuse the issue. Design you keys as the business requires in your logical
data model.
Add indexes where the addition of the index helps query performance. The
choice of whether a particular index should be clustered (only 1 per table)
or non-clustered should be clearly examined on a table by table basis.
Here's a good start:
http://www.sql-server-performance.co...ed_indexes.asp
David Gugick
Quest Software
|||that is a great article that david has given you.

Click Through Error - An item with the same key has already been added - When/Why?

I am getting this error when clicking-through in Report Builder on a report using a report model as the data source -
An item with the same key has already been added.

I searched for the error but came up empty in the SSRS space. Does anyone out there know when this is generated and where I need to look in my model/properties to see what I have set incorrectly?

A little background/detail - It's a simple report against two fields (type & #count) in one entity (customer) in a (guessing here) medium sized model (~16 transactional/fact entities, ~40 lookup entities, ~15 what I am calling domain entities). The entity has 5 DefaultDetailAttributes, one Identifying. The report has 2 fields type (a lookup role) and #customers in the data area (so I can click it to test the click through). Then I click the # Customers to look at the detail for those X customers and after a long while and no queries against the DB (I have profiler running) I get this error.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Getting the same error too...