The B-tree works much the same for nonclustered indexes as it does for clustered indexes, but there are some differences. In nonclustered indexes:
The leaf pages are not the same as the data pages.
The leaf level stores one key-pointer pair for each row in the table.
The leaf-level pages store the index keys and page pointers, plus a pointer to the row offset table on the data page. This combination of page pointer plus the row offset number is called the row ID.
The root and intermediate levels store index keys and page pointers to other index pages. They also store the row ID of the key’s data row.
With keys of the same size, nonclustered indexes require more space than clustered indexes.
