A Fine Slice Of SQL Server
Gail Shaw on how clustered indexes do not guarantee physical order:
Do indexes (clustered or non-clustered) define the physical storage order of the rows?
No, absolutely not.
What indexes do is provide a logical ordering, a collection of pointers, that allow the storage engine to retrieve data from an index ordered by the index key, but that’s logical ordering, it specified nothing regarding the physical ordering.
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