What is the basic difference between clustered and a
non-clustered index?

Answer Posted / s.purushothaman

The difference between a clustered index and a non-clustered index is that when you use a clustered index, the section of the table that comprises the index has its data pages linked differently from those data pages comprising a non-clustered index.

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