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LAW1143
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Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:16 AM
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Ive got a large transactional table. its has a clustered index on the 'rowID' column (bigint), which is in great shape (as data isnt ever deleted from the db, but thats another issue for another day).
the non-clustered index on 'fkId' and 'trnDate' is horribly fragmented, at ~90%.
I rebuild it, and the resulting fragmentation is still ~90%. I tried again adjusting the fill-factor and its higher yet. interesting, and the table DOES have 4 'bigint' columns in it. pages show avg free space of 789Kb (which is about 10%, so good to work with)
I am getting this from dm_db_index_physical_Stats, and comparing with results of dbcc showcontig. for good measure I ran a dbcc updateusage (which I know I shouldnt need on sql 2008, but...)
everything I've searched on along these lines leads me to generic stuff about tables with few pages, (this one has over 200k pages) and not quite what im after.
any useful links or tips?
thanks in advance!
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GilaMonster
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Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:25 AM
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How many pages does the nonclustered index have?
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LAW1143
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Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:27 AM
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over 218k
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Robert Davis
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Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:34 AM
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Can you show the output from sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats for the index? I suspect you may be looking at intermediate levels and not the leaf level.
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Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:51 AM
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DECLARE @db_id SMALLINT;
DECLARE @object_id INT;
SET @db_id = DB_ID(N'dbName');
SET @object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'tableName');
IF @object_id IS NULL
BEGIN;
PRINT N'Invalid object';
END;
ELSE
BEGIN;
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats(@db_id, @object_id, 11, NULL , 'LIMITED');
END;
GO
database_id object_id index_id partition_number index_type_desc alloc_unit_type_desc index_depth index_level avg_fragmentation_in_percent fragment_count avg_fragment_size_in_pages page_count avg_page_space_used_in_percent
5 1963870063 11 1 NONCLUSTERED INDEX IN_ROW_DATA 4 0 94.0136877112937 206272 1.05830165994415 218298 NULL
edit: heres a link ot the screenshot, thats impossible to read
http://bit.ly/WdEMNW
thanks! :)
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LAW1143
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Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:15 PM
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for giggles, I rebuilt with a 50% fill factor:
avg_fragmentation_in_percent changed to 94.691...
Fragment_count up to 380190
avg_fragment_size_in_pages a touch over 1.03
and page_count is up (as expected) to 394577
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GilaMonster
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Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:21 PM
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You have autoshrink on by any chance?
btw, you can attach images to the posts. I'm not clicking on an obfuscated link that could go anywhere.
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LAW1143
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Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:24 PM
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its a link to my dropbox, but understand your hesitation. dont have another place handy to stick that image at the moment, so sorry...
I DO NOT have auto-shrink enabled. (just double checked to be positive, whew!)
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Robert Davis
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You are definitely looking at the right level of the index. There must simply not be enough contiguous free space for it to rebuild it unfragmented.
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LAW1143 (1/22/2013)
its a link to my dropbox, but understand your hesitation. dont have another place handy to stick that image at the moment, so sorry...
btw, you can attach images to the posts.
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