Index fragmentation not cutting down to 0

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Index fragmentation not cutting down to 0

WonderPra

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January 20, 2014 at 10:59 am

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hey people,
I am a db trainee at my work n i was trying to execute the reindexing maintenance scripts manuallly on a databases.. When i run alter index all on one of the index (which is unknown index and i cant see that on the table also, dont know where it went) Its not defragmenting to 0 or even little less. It is still 93% and i am horrified to see that. Please help.
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george sibbald SSC Guru Points: 104210 More actions · Answer 1

is the table a heap (indid = 0). rebuild would not be able to defragment a heap.

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WonderPra SSCommitted Points: 1624 More actions · Answer 2

thanku i just came to know that.. Thanks for the quick response 🙂

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george sibbald SSC Guru Points: 104210 More actions · Answer 3

no problem

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398882 More actions · Answer 4

Or if the data is less than an extent in size (8 pages), then it won't fragment either. Generally you shouldn't even bother defragmenting an index until it's at least 100 pages in size. Some recommendations are to wait until it's at least 1000 pages in size.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004339 More actions · Answer 5

On the other hand, I've found that it almost takes the same amount of time to filter out such tables as it is to try to defrag them because they are so small.

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________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 6

Jeff Moden (1/20/2014)
On the other hand, I've found that it almost takes the same amount of time to filter out such tables as it is to try to defrag them because they are so small.

However filtering out tables doesn't contribute towards log backup size, log shipping times, mirroring or always on log transfers.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004339 More actions · Answer 7

GilaMonster (1/21/2014)
Jeff Moden (1/20/2014)
On the other hand, I've found that it almost takes the same amount of time to filter out such tables as it is to try to defrag them because they are so small.
However filtering out tables doesn't contribute towards log backup size, log shipping times, mirroring or always on log transfers.

Gimme a minute while I try to get the egg off my face. :blush: That's absolutely true. Thanks, Gail.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

george sibbald SSC Guru Points: 104210 More actions · Answer 8

of course, it depends how many small tables you've got. 😉

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004339 More actions · Answer 9

Heh... I know this is an old post but I've found out through experimentation since Nov 2017 that if you're using REORGANIZE for large tables, then you have much bigger things to worry about when it comes to log backup size, log shipping times, mirroring or always on log transfers. 😉 REORGANIZE on a 146GB table suffering only 12% Logical Fragmentation (well within supposed "Best Practices" of reorging between 10 and 30%) caused the log file to explode from 20GB to 227GB.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)