Does index rebuild or update statistics affect PLE

  • Hi All,

    My question in short is does  index rebuild or update statistics affect PLE, because i have a job collecting performance metrics and i noticed that PLE dropped from 1400 to just 9 during index rebuild job.
    Not sure if it's related or just a coincidence.
    Waiting for you feedback please.
    Regards
    Nader

  • It relates.  Rebuilding index and updating statistics could bring lots of pages into the memory (depending on index and table size and in case of statistics update the size of the sampling).

    Adi

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  • Adi Cohn-120898 - Thursday, March 30, 2017 5:07 AM

    It relates.  Rebuilding index and updating statistics could bring lots of pages into the memory (depending on index and table size and in case of statistics update the size of the sampling).

    Adi

    For update statistics job i am using FULLSCAN, so i guess that's why.
    Thank you for your reply.

  • UPDATE STATISTICS all alone isn't going to affect your PLE. It's the changes that may result to execution plans when they have different (hopefully more accurate) row estimates that can affect PLE.

    By the way, PLE is really only a nominal measure of load. It's a crappy measure of performance. I wouldn't be too focused on it.

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