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Explain database indexes and the difference between clustered and non-clustered indexes.
Tests whether you know a clustered index physically orders the table's rows on disk by the index key (only one per table), while a non-clustered index is a separate structure with pointers back to the actual rows -- which is why clustered-index lookups avoid an extra hop that non-clustered ones need.
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