Note, I am not talking about a clustered index against a non-cluster index, I mean a clustered index comparing to no index at all for inserting performance.
I saw lots of links as below said that, a clustered index has better performance against no index even for insert operation, due to IAM/PFS/bitmap/..., but with my testing, seems no index is faster than cluster index, what's the problem?
Removing a Primary Key (Clustered Index) to increase Insert performance http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297861
my test scripts:
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--prepare table with clustered index
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BigTable_CI](
[id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[BigChar] [char](4100) NOT NULL
)
GO
CREATE CLUSTERED INDEX CIX_BigTable_CI
ON BigTable_CI(id)
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[BigTable_CI]
ADD CONSTRAINT [DF_BigTable_BigChar_CI] DEFAULT ('a') FOR [BigChar]
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[AddDataToBigTable_CI]
(@NumberOfRows bigint)
AS
SET NOCOUNT ON;
DECLARE @Counter int = 0;
DECLARE @Start datetime = GETDATE();
DECLARE @End datetime;
DECLARE @ElapsedTime int = 0;
DECLARE @RowsPerSecond int = 0;
WHILE (@Counter < @NumberOfRows)
BEGIN
INSERT INTO dbo.BigTable_CI DEFAULT VALUES;
SELECT @Counter += 1;
END;
-- Calculate elapsed time and rows/second
SET @End = GETDATE();
SET @ElapsedTime = CONVERT(INTEGER, DATEDIFF (second, @Start, @End));
SET @RowsPerSecond = @NumberOfRows/@ElapsedTime;
-- Record results in local table
INSERT INTO dbo.Results
(StartTime, EndTime, ElapsedTime, NumberOfRows, RowsPerSecond)
VALUES (@Start, @End, @ElapsedTime, @NumberOfRows, @RowsPerSecond);
RETURN;
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--prepare table without any index at all.
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BigTable_NI](
[id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[BigChar] [char](4100) NOT NULL
)
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[BigTable_NI]
ADD CONSTRAINT [DF_BigTable_BigChar_NI] DEFAULT ('a') FOR [BigChar]
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[AddDataToBigTable_NI]
(@NumberOfRows bigint)
AS
SET NOCOUNT ON;
DECLARE @Counter int = 0;
DECLARE @Start datetime = GETDATE();
DECLARE @End datetime;
DECLARE @ElapsedTime int = 0;
DECLARE @RowsPerSecond int = 0;
WHILE (@Counter < @NumberOfRows)
BEGIN
INSERT INTO dbo.BigTable_NI DEFAULT VALUES;
SELECT @Counter += 1;
END;
-- Calculate elapsed time and rows/second
SET @End = GETDATE();
SET @ElapsedTime = CONVERT(INTEGER, DATEDIFF (second, @Start, @End));
SET @RowsPerSecond = @NumberOfRows/@ElapsedTime;
-- Record results in local table
INSERT INTO dbo.Results
(StartTime, EndTime, ElapsedTime, NumberOfRows, RowsPerSecond)
VALUES (@Start, @End, @ElapsedTime, @NumberOfRows, @RowsPerSecond);
RETURN;
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--prepare the results table
create table dbo.Results
(
StartTime datetime,
EndTime datetime,
ElapsedTime int,
NumberOfRows int,
RowsPerSecond int
)
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--run scripts:
exec [dbo].[AddDataToBigTable_NI] 1000000
exec [dbo].[AddDataToBigTable_CI] 1000000