adlan (3/5/2014)
1. If people think that this was likely to have caused corruption.
No.
2. If the offline index would have come back on line any sooner by rebooting the server.
No, exactly the opposite. SQL would have had to roll back the index rebuild after the restart, with the database unavailable in the recovering state.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability