> "Suppose that the level of chaos (i.e. fragmentation) of the data in a given Data Base can be calculated and quantified. Such a factor will alert the System Manager way before the end-users start experiencing any malfunction. One will be able to manage IT resources and schedule the reorganization process ahead of time, before it becomes impractical, and before the complaints start arriving."

Q1 Please explain: In the case of disk stats how is this superior (or indeed is it at all) to say having a task that runs:

defrag C: -a -v

and parses the result to determine when defragging is needed???

Q2 In the case of database fragmentation how is this superior to dbcc statistics?