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Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 1

Jeff Moden (12/14/2014)
In the category of learning something new, I just did some testing on the differences between ONLINE and OFFLINE index rebuilds because of a post I saw on LinkedIn. I knew that ONLINE was going to be slower than OFFLINE but I'm totally shocked at the how much of a difference there is on multiple fronts. I was really skeptical of claims like "OFFLINE is 5 times faster" and "OFFLINE also does a better job of defragging", etc, etc, and, so, did a bunch of testing and found out it was all true. I'm truly amazed.
I'm also humbled by the fact that I didn't know this before.

Did you also test to see if there's as big a difference if you're using SORT_IN_TEMPDB=ON?

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736478 More actions · Answer 2

Jeff Moden (12/14/2014)
In the category of learning something new, I just did some testing on the differences between ONLINE and OFFLINE index rebuilds because of a post I saw on LinkedIn. I knew that ONLINE was going to be slower than OFFLINE but I'm totally shocked at the how much of a difference there is on multiple fronts. I was really skeptical of claims like "OFFLINE is 5 times faster" and "OFFLINE also does a better job of defragging", etc, etc, and, so, did a bunch of testing and found out it was all true. I'm truly amazed.
I'm also humbled by the fact that I didn't know this before.

Writeup?

I'm not surprised. Given that online essentially starts a transaction, flips two pages, commits, it should be a lot slower.

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182915 More actions · Answer 3

Doesn't this look like one of out favourite "Kitchen" people (look at the query, db name is OrbeData_KithKitchens):-D

😎

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 4

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259115 More actions · Answer 5

Voting time again!

The tribal award finalists are out and a lot of threadizens are nominated in very different categories!

Somehow my blog ended up in the category "Best Blog", next to some industry giants like Thomas LaRock, Paul Randal and Brent Ozar.

Not sure how that happened 😀

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Awards/119953/

ps: you can also still vote for me at the author of the year award at MSSQLTips 😉

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Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 23009 More actions · Answer 6

Eirikur Eiriksson (12/15/2014)
Doesn't this look like one of out favourite "Kitchen" people (look at the query, db name is OrbeData_KithKitchens):-D
😎

I thought that as soon as I saw it 😀 Although by all accounts, if it was, that thread would quickly become swamped with company spammers trying to hide any criticism of the kitchen company mentioned. I'm still ashamed that the guy behind a lot of the spam is reasonably local to me.

On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398909 More actions · Answer 7

Koen Verbeeck (12/16/2014)
Voting time again!
The tribal award finalists are out and a lot of threadizens are nominated in very different categories!
Somehow my blog ended up in the category "Best Blog", next to some industry giants like Thomas LaRock, Paul Randal and Brent Ozar.
Not sure how that happened 😀
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Awards/119953/
ps: you can also still vote for me at the author of the year award at MSSQLTips 😉

Good luck Koen!

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259115 More actions · Answer 8

Grant Fritchey (12/16/2014)
Koen Verbeeck (12/16/2014)
Voting time again!
The tribal award finalists are out and a lot of threadizens are nominated in very different categories!
Somehow my blog ended up in the category "Best Blog", next to some industry giants like Thomas LaRock, Paul Randal and Brent Ozar.
Not sure how that happened 😀
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Awards/119953/
ps: you can also still vote for me at the author of the year award at MSSQLTips 😉
Good luck Koen!

And the same to you.

I already voted for you in several categories 😀

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rodjkidd SSCoach Points: 15916 More actions · Answer 9

Koen Verbeeck (12/16/2014)
Grant Fritchey (12/16/2014)
Koen Verbeeck (12/16/2014)
Voting time again!
The tribal award finalists are out and a lot of threadizens are nominated in very different categories!
Somehow my blog ended up in the category "Best Blog", next to some industry giants like Thomas LaRock, Paul Randal and Brent Ozar.
Not sure how that happened 😀
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Awards/119953/
ps: you can also still vote for me at the author of the year award at MSSQLTips 😉
Good luck Koen!
And the same to you.
I already voted for you in several categories 😀

I voted, some tough calls there. I like the categories.

But obviously the most prestigious must be "best costume", I felt JRJ didn't quite go all out at SQL Bits this year :O, and our very own Steve Jones stole the show at the Summit! 😉

Rodders...

Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 10

rodjkidd (12/16/2014)
Koen Verbeeck (12/16/2014)
Grant Fritchey (12/16/2014)
Koen Verbeeck (12/16/2014)
Voting time again!
The tribal award finalists are out and a lot of threadizens are nominated in very different categories!
Somehow my blog ended up in the category "Best Blog", next to some industry giants like Thomas LaRock, Paul Randal and Brent Ozar.
Not sure how that happened 😀
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Awards/119953/
ps: you can also still vote for me at the author of the year award at MSSQLTips 😉
Good luck Koen!
And the same to you.
I already voted for you in several categories 😀
I voted, some tough calls there. I like the categories.
But obviously the most prestigious must be "best costume", I felt JRJ didn't quite go all out at SQL Bits this year :O, and our very own Steve Jones stole the show at the Summit! 😉
Rodders...

Thanks for the heads-up, Koen. I always find the nominations interesting. They cover a good mix of topics and people and they always give me something to look up that I haven't seen before.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004406 More actions · Answer 11

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/15/2014)
Jeff Moden (12/14/2014)
In the category of learning something new, I just did some testing on the differences between ONLINE and OFFLINE index rebuilds because of a post I saw on LinkedIn. I knew that ONLINE was going to be slower than OFFLINE but I'm totally shocked at the how much of a difference there is on multiple fronts. I was really skeptical of claims like "OFFLINE is 5 times faster" and "OFFLINE also does a better job of defragging", etc, etc, and, so, did a bunch of testing and found out it was all true. I'm truly amazed.
I'm also humbled by the fact that I didn't know this before.
Writeup?
I'm not surprised. Given that online essentially starts a transaction, flips two pages, commits, it should be a lot slower.

Writeup? I was thinking the same thing. It would have to be a "what I found" type of article rather than an "SME" type of article because I didn't know a thing about it before I did the testing.

--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:
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Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004406 More actions · Answer 12

Stefan Krzywicki (12/15/2014)
Jeff Moden (12/14/2014)
In the category of learning something new, I just did some testing on the differences between ONLINE and OFFLINE index rebuilds because of a post I saw on LinkedIn. I knew that ONLINE was going to be slower than OFFLINE but I'm totally shocked at the how much of a difference there is on multiple fronts. I was really skeptical of claims like "OFFLINE is 5 times faster" and "OFFLINE also does a better job of defragging", etc, etc, and, so, did a bunch of testing and found out it was all true. I'm truly amazed.
I'm also humbled by the fact that I didn't know this before.
Did you also test to see if there's as big a difference if you're using SORT_IN_TEMPDB=ON?

Not yet but that's in the works. I also want to explore what it does to file sizes especially when you have partitioning in play that uses, for example, one file group and one file per month.

--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)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004406 More actions · Answer 13

Gosh. I can't believe that the Hierarchies On Steroids #1 article made it to the "Bacon" list on the Tribal Awards. I wouldn't mind winning that one. The prize is a jar of "Bacon Jam" and I like bacon even more than pork chops. 😛

Koen, I'm on my way to vote for your blog. Thanks for the time you've spent on it.

Grant... voting for you on the "beyond the call of duty" category. It was absolutely awesome to have you here in Detroit for the SQL Saturday and you went out of your way to fit it into a nearly impossible schedule. Thank you, good Sir!

--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)

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398909 More actions · Answer 14

Jeff Moden (12/16/2014)
Gosh. I can't believe that the Hierarchies On Steroids #1 article made it to the "Bacon" list on the Tribal Awards. I wouldn't mind winning that one. The prize is a jar of "Bacon Jam" and I like bacon even more than pork chops. 😛
Koen, I'm on my way to vote for your blog. Thanks for the time you've spent on it.
Grant... voting for you on the "beyond the call of duty" category. It was absolutely awesome to have you here in Detroit for the SQL Saturday and you went out of your way to fit it into a nearly impossible schedule. Thank you, good Sir!

Nothing to it. Plus it was a great opportunity to get to hang out with you and do curls. That doesn't happen often enough.

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SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182915 More actions · Answer 15

Jeff Moden (12/16/2014)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/15/2014)
Jeff Moden (12/14/2014)
In the category of learning something new, I just did some testing on the differences between ONLINE and OFFLINE index rebuilds because of a post I saw on LinkedIn. I knew that ONLINE was going to be slower than OFFLINE but I'm totally shocked at the how much of a difference there is on multiple fronts. I was really skeptical of claims like "OFFLINE is 5 times faster" and "OFFLINE also does a better job of defragging", etc, etc, and, so, did a bunch of testing and found out it was all true. I'm truly amazed.
I'm also humbled by the fact that I didn't know this before.
Writeup?
I'm not surprised. Given that online essentially starts a transaction, flips two pages, commits, it should be a lot slower.
Writeup? I was thinking the same thing. It would have to be a "what I found" type of article rather than an "SME" type of article because I didn't know a thing about it before I did the testing.

Just my 2 Cents, by experience and if there are sufficient resources (which are needed by the ONLINE anyway), creating a new index and then drop the existing one beats ONLINE, just like The Miami Sharks, Any Given Sunday

😎

Edit: Typo