Recently I have been stumped by not cliaming unused space correctly even though after delete handful of rows on a table. You may be aware using SP_SPACEUSED will get you details such as : Column name Data type Description database_name nvarchar(128) Name of the current database. database_size varchar(18) Size of the current database in megabytes. ...

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 ...

Long ago, not long ago.... No doubt that many of you might have gone through the error above within your SQL environment, also I see many forum posts out there to resolve the issue. The bottom line of this issue is Hardware and no other issue can contribute such a problem. So this is where DBA's role is enhanced to take care of SQL Server hardware ...