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updates on a table

  • January 8, 2013 at 1:02 pm

    #269075

    I have updated a column with null. The column data type is varchar(2000). i update 2 billion rows but no space was released to the database. Do I have to rebuild the indexes or change the datatype to some low value and then do the rebuild index in order to release the space???

  • January 8, 2013 at 1:12 pm

    #1574985

    Rebuild the clustered index.

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