>>How would you explain the fact I got 2 Index seeks with your test code and my addition of populating tables?
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>>>No, no matter if PRIMARY KEY index is CLUSTERED or not in both cases I have INDEX SEEK.
>>>Thanks again Walter.
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>I can't. :-)
>I even can not explain why my friend has INDEX SEEK directly w/o running any code to populate data.

FWIW, it runs two index seeks for me as well. However with no records in there the execution time does not differ.