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Why disabling a clustered index makes the table inaccessible?

When an index is disabled, the definition remains in the system catalog but is no longer used. SQL Server does not maintain the index (as data in the table changes), and the index cannot be used to ...
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What are the differences between leaf and non-leaf pages?

I've been running some index usage reports, and I'm trying to get a definition of Leaf and Non-leaf. There seem to be both Leaf and Non-leaf Inserts, Updates, Deletes, Page Merges, and Page ...
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Index with multiple leaf levels

I have a three-column (int, smallint, smallint) composite clustered index with three leaf levels. My question is how and when does SQL Server create multiple leaf levels (index_level 0) for the same ...