• If the indexes are less than a 8 pages in size, they won't take a full extent and you'll never get complete defragmentation. You may be seeing fragmentation going up overnight because of activity on the system. On most systems, fragmentation is not that big a deal, but you're right to monitor and try to maintain it.

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