how ironic. I just barely got to read your editorial today. What was i doing instead? Scheming a system that would reindex my prod server. I'm resurrecting a series of procs and tables i wrote up years ago at another location to perform showcontig (SQL2000) and tell me historically the status of tables. Then i can proceed to reindex or defrag them.

Silly, after all these years, that there isnt a built in config to take care of this for me.

How often have i implemented this type of system? almost at each db shop i have worked.