[dba-SQLServer] Add records to large file

I don't have a clustered index on my database from hell main table, the 50 million record 600 field 
table.

I am going to do that.  What I thought I would do is simply make a new database, create a new table, 
and append the existing data into the new table.  There is a unique integer PK which will be the key 
of the index.

My question is whether it is faster to create the clustered index and then insert the records, 
already sorted in PKID, or create the table and then create the index.

Logically it seems that it would be faster to do the insert sorted with the index already in place, 
but I have heard opinions that it is "often faster" to drop the index and recreate", i.e. do the 
index after the records are in place.

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John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com