Why is there a scan on my clustered index?

Question

SQL 2000
The NED table has a foreign key to the SIGN table NED.RowID to SIGN.RowID
The SIGN table has a foreign key to the NED table SIGN.SignID to NED.SignID
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Answer 1

Here's a good blog post about when SQL Server reaches the "tipping point" and switches from an index seek to an index/table scan:

http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/KIMBERLY/post/The-Tipping-Point-Query-Answers.aspx

You may want to look at the way your queries are filtering, as the tipping point is often much fewer rows than people expect.