Re: Equivalent praxis to CLUSTERED INDEX?

Adi Alurkar wrote:
> IIRC it it to reduce the "overflow" of data or what oracle calls
> chained rows. i.e if a table has variable length columns and 10 rows
> get inserted into a datapage, if this datapage is full and one of the
> variable length field gets updated the row will now "overflow" into
> another datapage, but if the datapage is created with an appropriate
> amount of free space the updated row will be stored in one single
> datapage.

Agreed. What I am wondering is with our system where every update gets
a new row, how would this help us? I know we try to keep an update on
the same row as the original, but is there any significant performance
benefit to doing that which would offset the compaction advantage?

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