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Posted Thursday, February 23, 2012 8:53 AM
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This is a great series. I've enjoy'ed it a great deal. But I'm having a problem getting my head around the paragraph on disabling an index:
The primary reason for disabling an index is to save disk space when rebuilding the index. If the index has not been disabled, the rebuild process maintains the original version of the index until the new version has been created; resulting in both versions consuming disk space at the same time. By deleting the index first; an entire index’s worth of disk space is saved during the rebuild process.
Rebuilding an index that has been
deleted
typically requires about one fifth the disk space that rebuilding an undeleted index requires.
How can you rebuild something that has been deleted?
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GilaMonster
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Posted Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:13 AM
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If the index is disabled, the metadata is still there. That's all that's needed to rebuild an index (rebuild actually creates an new index structure). If the index is actually deleted, then it can't be rebuild and would have to be completely recreated
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