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  • October 15, 2008 at 9:58 pm

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    Sorry... the day's coffee is wearing off. 🙂 I didn't read all of your last...

    You're correct. Since the rows are going to be added on a onesy basis, there could be some pretty nasty fragmentation at FILL FACTOR 100 on the non-clustered indexes. I don't believe even an 80 FILL FACTOR would help there. Might want to go as low as, say, 60 as a guess. Best thing to do would be to find out what an average day of inserts looks like and calculate a FILL FACTOR to support the inserts.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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