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  • June 24, 2014 at 12:17 pm

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    Welsh Corgi (6/24/2014)

    I dropped the Non Clustered Index and it is in a suspended State and a PAGEIOLATCH_EX Wait Type.

    Percent Complete steady at zero percent.

    Probably because it's waiting for the drop of the clustered index to complete. You should drop nonclustered indexes before dropping a cluster, not during.

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