• I read the article. It would appear that I either didn't emphasise some things to Tony or he chose to ignore them. 😀

    p.s. If any DBA ever told me they wanted overtime so they could do index maintenance, I'd laugh. It's something that should be scheduled and automated.

    Gail Shaw
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