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Page Free Space On Heaps

Raul Gonzalez shows a case in which writing to a heap can be more efficient than writing to a clustered index:

Lots have been written, including myself, about the advantage and disadvantages of the different types of tables that exist in SQL Server, Clustered and Heaps.

Today I will again, because at the end of the day, a table is the most basic structure in a database and we need them to store the data, which is indeed the purpose of having a database, right?

Interesting reading.  Check it out.