SQL Server Fragmentation Impact with Modern Hardware
Read this article to find out if you still need to worry about SQL Server index fragmentation with modern hardware.
2023-11-03
Read this article to find out if you still need to worry about SQL Server index fragmentation with modern hardware.
2023-11-03
What does fragmentation mean? How does it happen? Can you fix it with fill factor? Should you rebuild your indexes to fix it?
2022-09-26
The script returns all the fragmented indexes on all databases on the instance you run it. Can be run on multiple instances in the same time using central management capability.
2021-07-12 (first published: 2021-07-06)
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Script to list out all fragmented indexes for a given database, with options to only view them, reorganize them, or rebuild them in one fell swoop.
2012-05-25 (first published: 2012-05-15)
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This article decribes how defragementing a 900 GB drive assisted in addressing major performance issues on a reporting server.
2012-04-20
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If you are relying on using 'best-practice' percentage-based thresholds when you are creating an index maintenance plan for a SQL Server that checks the fragmentation in your pages, you may miss occasional 'edge' conditions on larger tables that will cause severe degradation in performance. It is worth being aware of patterns of data access in particular tables when judging the best threshold figure to use.
2012-03-14
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This article describes how an index gets fragmented and the steps which a DBA can take to fix index fragmentation
2008-12-11
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Just a stab at automating index maintainenance in SQL Server 2008
2013-01-11 (first published: 2008-11-07)
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Disk Fragmentation is one of the cause of degraded performance. Use this script for fragmentation analysis report.
2008-10-24
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2009-08-03 (first published: 2008-02-29)
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I run this command in SQL Server 2022. What is the extension of the backup file?
BACKUP DATABASE HerdofTwo TO DISK = 'HerdOfTwo_20240501'See possible answers