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Is Unique-NonClustered index also is HEAP Table




Somebody questioned me long back that is Unique-NonClustered Index is also a HEAP Table.
I said yes..
Explanation below:

USE [AdventureWorks2012_old]
GO

/****** Object:  Table [dbo].[Employee]    Script Date: 2/25/2013 11:06:23 AM ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO

SET ANSI_PADDING ON
GO

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Employee](
       [Empid] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
       [EmpFName] [char](10) NULL,
       [EmpLName] [char](10) NULL,
       [Salary] [int] NULL,
CONSTRAINT [IX_Employee] UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED
(
       [Empid] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]

GO

SET ANSI_PADDING ON
GO
go

select OBJECT_NAME(object_id),type_desc from sys.indexes where type_desc ='HEAP'
  go


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