RE: Insert Into Using OpenQuery Causes Massive Fragmentation

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August 15, 2012 at 5:05 pm

Based on the fragmentation you experienced with OPENQUERY, I truly wonder if OPENQUERY is set-based or some form of "Hidden RBAR". The order of data on a single insert shouldn't matter to the indexes. There shouldn't be any fragmentation on a freshly truncated table that has only had a single insert applied to it.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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