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In SQL Server, is it possible to have a PRIMARY KEY on a table without either CLUSTERED or NONCLUSTERED indexes on the same key?

In Sql Server (2008), is it possible to have a PRIMARY KEY on a set of columns without either CLUSTERED or NONCLUSTERED indexes on the same set of columns? I am aware of the fact that PRIMARY KEY and ...
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Impact of miss-ordered fields in a composite, clustered primary key?

I have tables where the primary key is something like this: -StoreID -BusinessDate Typically, there is one row for every store (~100) for every single day. One row for each store is inserted on a ...
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Clustered monotonically increased index insert performance

I have a table with field Id (bigint, IDENTITY) as primary key and clustered index on it. I inserted 400 rows and saw execution plan. I got: the relative query cost for this insertion 36% and for this ...