What happens when I drop a clustered primary key in SQL 2005

Question

I\'ve a PK constraint - a clustered index on two columns - which I am in the process of dropping. The command is still running after an hour. I would have thought that as I

Answer 1

Clustered index is not "just a constraint", it's a storage method.

When you drop it, your data are being reordered from clustered storage to heap storage

Other indexes are being updated to refer to RID's instead of PRIMARY KEY values.