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Speed up large clustered index creation?

I have a large table, the row count of the table is more than 3 billion, the data space for this table is about 120 GB. And Intel Xeon CPU E5645 @2.4GHz(2 processors), 24 CPUs, 64G memory, 64bit ...
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2answers
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Clustered vs Nonclustered Index

My database currently has a primary Key/Clustered index on the ID column for each table. However, the application that connects to the database is always looking at views defined as: SELECT * FROM ...
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1answer
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Updating column in underlying table causes massive transaction log growth

I have an underlying table ~14k records and an indexed view that contains ~11 million records. When updating a column in the small underlying table this seems to cause a massive transaction log entry ...
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2answers
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Large Fact table and partitioning key dilemma

I have fairly large fact table (2 billion records, approx 120 GB). This table is not partitioned and the queries are very slow to respond. I am planning to partition the table and indexes. The table ...
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0answers
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SQL Server 2008 R2 clustered index issue

Last week, we came up with a strange issue on Clustered index. We are using SQL Server 2008 R2 in our organization. A stored procedure is written for our application which contains a cursor in it. ...
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1answer
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Clustered Index Update on Nonclustered Columns

Using: SQL Server 2008 R2 I am currently stepping through a query execution plan, and have come across an instance of a clustered index update on a table. The issue here is that the columns that are ...