How do you calculate record size of an alternate cluster?
Give your values for both unique and nonunique.
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Unique Case: 5 + ( alt-key-length + primary-key )
Non unique Case: 5 + ( alt-key-length + n * primary-key )
where n = number of duplicate records for the alternate key
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