fill factor with clustered PK on identity PLUS another column

  • I'm looking for the problem.  Changing the 3 declared variables from smallint to int didn't help.  It succeeded on a small test database but having this error on a large copy of production.
    Started @ 2017-03-29 10:07:11
    Index Usage Stats @ 2017-03-29 10:07:11
    Msg 220, Level 16, State 1, Line 252
    Arithmetic overflow error for data type smallint, value = 65628.
    The statement has been terminated.
    Ended @ 2017-03-29 10:07:12

  • Indianrock - Wednesday, March 29, 2017 11:12 AM

    I'm looking for the problem.  Changing the 3 declared variables from smallint to int didn't help.  It succeeded on a small test database but having this error on a large copy of production.
    Started @ 2017-03-29 10:07:11
    Index Usage Stats @ 2017-03-29 10:07:11
    Msg 220, Level 16, State 1, Line 252
    Arithmetic overflow error for data type smallint, value = 65628.
    The statement has been terminated.
    Ended @ 2017-03-29 10:07:12

    Ouch, sorry!  Did you try a global replace on "smallint" to "int"?  Maybe that will do it?

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • On the copy of prod I can run it on one table at a time, generally.  Same error with certain tables.  Everything smallint changed to int.  Looking at the temp tables only fill factor was winding up smaller than Integer, so I cast it as Integer, but didn't help.
    Seems to be the insert into the missing index temp table that causes the problem.
    INTO #index_missing
    I've attached the results for one of our problematic tables.

  • ScottPletcher - Wednesday, March 29, 2017 11:40 AM

    Indianrock - Wednesday, March 29, 2017 11:12 AM

    I'm looking for the problem.  Changing the 3 declared variables from smallint to int didn't help.  It succeeded on a small test database but having this error on a large copy of production.
    Started @ 2017-03-29 10:07:11
    Index Usage Stats @ 2017-03-29 10:07:11
    Msg 220, Level 16, State 1, Line 252
    Arithmetic overflow error for data type smallint, value = 65628.
    The statement has been terminated.
    Ended @ 2017-03-29 10:07:12

    Ouch, sorry!  Did you try a global replace on "smallint" to "int"?  Maybe that will do it?

    The error is raised by this statement

    FILEGROUP_NAME(i.data_space_id)

    The reason for the eror, is that FILEGROUP_NAME expects a SMALLINT as an input.
    However, sys.indexes.data_space_id is an INT value

  • DesNorton - Wednesday, March 29, 2017 1:36 PM

    ScottPletcher - Wednesday, March 29, 2017 11:40 AM

    Indianrock - Wednesday, March 29, 2017 11:12 AM

    I'm looking for the problem.  Changing the 3 declared variables from smallint to int didn't help.  It succeeded on a small test database but having this error on a large copy of production.
    Started @ 2017-03-29 10:07:11
    Index Usage Stats @ 2017-03-29 10:07:11
    Msg 220, Level 16, State 1, Line 252
    Arithmetic overflow error for data type smallint, value = 65628.
    The statement has been terminated.
    Ended @ 2017-03-29 10:07:12

    Ouch, sorry!  Did you try a global replace on "smallint" to "int"?  Maybe that will do it?

    The error is raised by this statement

    FILEGROUP_NAME(i.data_space_id)

    The reason for the eror, is that FILEGROUP_NAME expects a SMALLINT as an input.
    However, sys.indexes.data_space_id is an INT value

    Nice catch/find!  @Indianrock, just comment that line out, it's not really need it anyway (I do more with FILEGROUP in my in-house code, but it's not required for general use):
    ...
      --FILEGROUP_NAME(i.data_space_id) AS main_fg_name, --comment this line out
    ...

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • With some more digging, on my system, this error is caused by a partition scheme


    SELECT
      Indexname = i.name
    , IndexType = i.type_desc
    , DataspaceType = ds.type_desc
    FROM sys.indexes AS i
    INNER JOIN sys.data_spaces AS ds
     ON i.data_space_id = ds.data_space_id
    WHERE i.data_space_id > 32767; -- MAX value for SMALLINT


    Indexname      IndexType   DataspaceType
    ------------- ---------- -----------------
    CLX_DataPart   CLUSTERED   PARTITION_SCHEME

  • This change didn't remove the error       I see there are two indexes that have data_space_id greater than 60,000

    FILEGROUP_NAME(cast(i.data_space_id as smallint) ) AS main_fg_name,

    tablename object_id name index_id type type_desc is_unique data_space_id
    ifts_comp_fragment_2009058193_33698738 1588919214 clust 1 1 CLUSTERED 1 66865
    ACCOUNT_OWNERSHIP_DOC_SUMMARY 2009058193 ACCOUNT_OWNERSHIP_DOC_SUMMARY_UC1 2 2 NONCLUSTERED 1 65628

  • Indianrock - Wednesday, March 29, 2017 1:59 PM

    This change didn't remove the error       I see there are two indexes that have data_space_id greater than 60,000

    FILEGROUP_NAME(cast(i.data_space_id as smallint) ) AS main_fg_name,

    tablename object_id name index_id type type_desc is_unique data_space_id
    ifts_comp_fragment_2009058193_33698738 1588919214 clust 1 1 CLUSTERED 1 66865
    ACCOUNT_OWNERSHIP_DOC_SUMMARY 2009058193 ACCOUNT_OWNERSHIP_DOC_SUMMARY_UC1 2 2 NONCLUSTERED 1 65628

    Hmm, I recommended you comment out the reference to FILEGROUP_NAME completely ... I don't see how it can cause an error if it doesn't run :D, like so:
    /*FILEGROUP_NAME(cast(i.data_space_id as smallint) ) AS main_fg_name,*/
    The filegroup name is not really need for the index usage analysis anyway.

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • This seems to fix it

    FILEGROUP_NAME(iif(i.data_space_id>32000,1,i.data_space_id)) AS main_fg_name,

    Now does anybody really want to see a spreadsheet of the whole database, from this query, or maybe a table a week?  😀

    By the way, this forum software is SO much better than what we used to have !

  • A few critical tables would be a good start, particularly large child tables that are currently clustered on an identity column.

    Edit: Be sure to include any "missing index" (query 1) and "index stats" (query 2) results for all tables.  Note that there may not be any results from query 1 for some tables.

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • ok, can some of this be commented out?

    MAX(ds.ItemNumber) AS Equality#
      FROM #index_missing
      CROSS APPLY DBA.dbo.DelimitedSplit8K (equality_columns, ',') ds
      WHERE equality_columns IS NOT NULL

  • Indianrock - Wednesday, March 29, 2017 5:33 PM

    ok, can some of this be commented out?

    MAX(ds.ItemNumber) AS Equality#
      FROM #index_missing
      CROSS APPLY DBA.dbo.DelimitedSplit8K (equality_columns, ',') ds
      WHERE equality_columns IS NOT NULL

    Yes, sorry, forgot to remove that part.  You can remove anything to do with "@list_missing_indexes_summary", it's very, very helpful but it's not absolutely critical.  This script is a subset of a script I use myself at work (2-3 generations old, but the same basic script).  I have to adjust it for external use.

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • I've attached the results.

  • I've taken a preliminary look.  Impressive table size, 3+TB!  I'll definitely have some suggestions for possible mods to indexes.  I don't know if you be able to / want to implement any/all of them, but that's of course up to you.  

    At first glance, it even appears there's a better clustering index, ( ACCOUNT_ID, CLIENT_ID ) [the PK could stay the same, it just wouldn't be clustered]. But I'll need more analysis to be sure, and of course that would be a huge change to make, even if you gained you a good amount of performance.

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".

  • Index analysis is complicated!  So, just to get a place to start, I'm looking at "borderline duplicate indexes."
     In the cases where there is a single-column index  AND another non-clustered multi-column index 
    that has that column as it's first key,  this should be the clearest opportunity to test and possibly remove
    the single-column index.  When that column is not the first key in the multi-column index, or is down in the includes,
     it's a whole different issue.  I can find queries that are using the single-column index, and see what happens
    with those queries when that index is disabled ( in QA )

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