Its a general assumption that whenever performance is degraded, the finger will be pointed to SQL Server, pretty easy eh!? If you look at any of the SQL Server related forums then 3 in 10 questions asks same question and nothing but shove blame on SQL Server. It is always better to be proactive than reactive, when it comes to identifying and ...

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 ...