SQL Server Indexing Strategies, Heap Analysis, and Diagnostic Scripts
Identifying Table Structures
Understanding the distinction between heap tables and those with clustered indexes is fundamental for performance tuning. This can be achieved by inspecting the index_id property within system partition views.
-- Retrieve table structure type based on index identifier
SELECT
t.name AS TableName,
i.type_desc ...
Posted on Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:17:38 +0000 by Orpheus13