The ever-shrinking maintenance window
As I’ve stated before, databases aren’t getting any smaller. Business and legal requirements are mandating that we gather and retain more and more data that, in the past, we might have purged from time...
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I just couldn’t let it go. Right after my last post I decided I just wasn’t satisfied with that maintenance script. First of all, it only worked on one database at a time. And secondly, there were...
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Index Maintenance: Rebuild vs Reorg
A developer asked me today what the difference was between ALTER INDEX … REBUILD and ALTER INDEX … REORGANIZE. One of the scripts he was running was first doing a rebuild of all indexes on a table,...
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RYO Maintenance Plan – Index Maintenance
It’s been a couple of weeks since my last post, but I swear I have a good excuse. I’ve been busily working on a separate writing project, but I’m back now and ready to continue rolling my own...
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