Changing Clustered Indexes

Jan 10, 2001

Is any one know of a way of changing the clustered index without creating in the middle the default clustered index

we have a big table that we use to switch the clustered index
whenever we change the clustered index we cannot change it directly we have
to drop the existing than the default clustered is built
and than we can built the new one - since it is a big table the process
takes a lot of time and I wonder if we can do it directly from one cluster
index to another

What we do not is running the following SQL:
-- remove the old index
drop index Tbl.I_oldId
GO
-- now create the newId as clustered
CREATE CLUSTERED
INDEX [I_newId] ON Tbl ([newId])
ON [PRIMARY]
GO

Any Idea ?
Thanks
David

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