• Michael Valentine Jones (11/1/2012)


    Or just leave it alone.

    This.

    For fragmentation of a non-leaf level to be of any impact, that level needs to be > ~1000 pages and for SQL to be doing such large range scans of the table that it needs to issue read-aheads for the non-leaf levels.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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