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ALI SQLDBA
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Posted Tuesday, December 01, 2009 8:46 PM
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Hello SQL Gurus
We have rebuilding index issue in our SQL environment. our jobs were failing since the server has been in production (since a week). I have learnt that the issue is because of the rebuild index LOB datatypes. According to MSDN, while rebuilding index, if a clustered index has any lob data type included in it or if a non clustered index has any lob data type coloumns included in it then the Rebuild will not suceed with rebuild = ON option.
I tried to rebuild the database when it is offline. defragmentaion is not reducing. I have collected the tables with rows >= 4000 and checked the corresponding coloumns included in it and also checked the respective data types. surprisingly, the data types on the coloumns are INTs and my rebuild offline does not defrag those coloumns. Can anyone help me out in this regard.
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Ali
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GilaMonster
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Posted Wednesday, December 02, 2009 12:13 AM
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How big's the index? How many pages?
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muthukkumaran Kaliyamoorthy
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Posted Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:03 AM
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Hi,
Read & use the index de-fragmentation script added in my signature.
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luckysql.kinda
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Posted Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:18 AM
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Run following query and let us know the result.
select * from sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats(DB_ID(), NULL, NULL, NULL, 'DETAILED')
Find 'avg_fragmentation_in_percent' - External Fragmentation
and 'avg_page_space_used_in_percent' - Internal
I want you to go ahead and remove the indexes which are referring LOB (text,ntext,image) and run rebuild again.
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ALI SQLDBA
ALI SQLDBA
Posted Wednesday, December 02, 2009 7:01 AM
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I have ran the scripts and executed the store proc. I see that only update statistics is applied on my database. the tables in the database has varied page count. I think I have very few pages >=10 - <=25 and their frag ranges from 87.5 - 33.33.
I cannot remove the indexes which include LOBs in it. Our database is updated quaterly by our third party vendor on a quaterly basis. Even if i drop those indexes now, It's a temporary solution for my problem.
But I am not able to understand why the rebuild index task is not able to defrag the columns with int data type. Is it something set wrong at the database level settings..? I am confused.. Help me out plzzzz
Thanks
Ali
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sqldba.jagan (12/2/2009)
The tables in the database has varied page count. I think I have very few pages >=10 - <=25 and their frag ranges from 87.5 - 33.33.
Don't even bother rebuilding indexes so small. Firstly, under 24 pages the index won't show much, if any change at all when rebuilt. This is due to the way SQL allocates pages in smaller indexes. The other point is that fragmentation is only a performance issue when doing large scans of an index. Emphasis large. The rough rule of thumb is that you should start worrying about fragmentation when an index reaches around 1000 pages as, at that point, the performance impact of the fragmentation may become noticeable.
Gail Shaw
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luckysql.kinda (12/2/2009)
I want you to go ahead and remove the indexes which are referring LOB (text,ntext,image) and run rebuild again.
Why?
External fragmentation usually refers to file-level fragmentation that's fixed with a disk defragmentation program.
Internal fragmentation usually refers to fragmentation of the index pages that's fixed with ALTER INDEX .. REBUILD or ALTER INDEX ... REORGANIZE
Gail Shaw
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muthukkumaran Kaliyamoorthy
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Posted Wednesday, December 02, 2009 7:12 AM
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But I am not able to understand
why the rebuild index task is not able to defrag the columns with int data type
. Is it something set wrong at the database level settings..? I am confused.. Help me out plzzzz [Crying]
Hi,
Can u send me the Object structure.
Muthukkumaran Kaliyamoorthy
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muthukkumaran Kaliyamoorthy
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Posted Wednesday, December 02, 2009 7:18 AM
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Hi,
Gail already point out pages are small
If the table is "Heap" fragmentation ll not remove
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ALI SQLDBA
ALI SQLDBA
Posted Wednesday, December 02, 2009 7:40 AM
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Most of my tables are either clusterd or non clustered.
so as per your expertise... this is not a big deal for me to worry. Right?
Also, do you recommend me t run rebuild offline scheduling an outage of the database every week.??
Thanks
Ali
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