When it comes to resolving table fragmentation, the basic checkout you perform is to run DBCC INDEXDEFRAG or even run DBCC DBREINDEX statements. As per the default configuraiton SQL Database Engine allocates a new extent to an allocation unit only when it cannot quickly find a page in an existing extent with sufficient space to hold the row being ...

This was the question from SSP forums, I’m trying to rebuild few fragmented indexes on a table that is updated on regular basis. The “dbcc showcontig” gave this result: Table: 'Confidential' (999999999); index ID: 5, database ID: 5 LEAF level scan performed. - Pages Scanned................................: 86 - Extents ...

Recently we have seen a negative performance for a query that is running against a 500GB size of database, where AUTO UPDATE STATISTICS is enabled and we perform weekly reindexing on this database. In addition to this I perform intermittent update statistics against set of tables that has frequently update/deletes. As usual I have checked for ...

Yet another important factors that every DBA needs to concerned about table & index fragmentation within their SQL Server environment. Refer to the a rticle about DetectTableFragmentation in both 2000 and 2005 version. Fragmentation occurs due to updates and delets on the table and the golden rule is that to have relevant indexes for better ...