Indexing

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Stabilize Index

  • Script

This sp is used to update index in a database.  This sp has got three optional varchar parameters.  First parameter will take the tablename. Second parameter will take the indexname.  Third parameter will take the fillfactor.  The following option we can execute the sp in a user database.1.    exec StabilizeIndexIt will update all index in […]

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2003-10-29

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Find Duplicate Indexes - Episode 1 (The Early SQL Versions)

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The excellent script contributed by G.R. Preethiviraj Kulasingham (Preethi) Sri Lanka (contributed 2/20/03, modified 5/22/03) identifies duplicate indexes for the database on which the script is run.  It requires User Defined Functions, a feature restricted to SQL Server 2000.This version achieves similar results without using UDFs or creating any other permanent objects. It therefore works […]

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2003-05-28

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Unattended Reindexing of all user tables

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I see scripts all the time on how to reindex all the tables in a db but they are usually too generic and may cause issues.  For instance they typically cause the log file to grow very large and may even fill the hard drive.  This is intended to be run off hours when db […]

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2003-04-24

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DB Reindex all Databases

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This script reindexes all tables in all databases.  Execute the script with the desired fill factor and it will do the rest.  There is an option to exclude databases from the reindex. This makes it easy to reindex all newly created databases. Great for the Development environment when Developers are creating database all the time.

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2003-03-23

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Selective Defrag/Reindex and Log

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SQL 2000 OnlyThis script will create a stored procedure and a table in the master database. Simply run the stored procedure and supply a database name as a parameter. It will do the following:1. Gather/Log DBCC SHOWCONTIG statistics (pre defrag)2. Defragment all user indexes in the database3. Gather/Log DBCC SHOWCONTIG statistics (post defrag)4. DBCC DBREINDEX […]

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2010-04-19 (first published: )

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Dynamic DBCC DBREINDEX

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This script uses sysobjects and sysindexes to ID all tables in a database that are indexed, and/or clustered.  It then runs through per table all of the indexes and runs DBREINDEX with their fillfactor.  This eliminates having to maintain a list of all indexes and having code fail when it tries to modify indexes that […]

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2002-12-19

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Question of the Day

Creating JSON III

In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:

BeerIDBeerName
1Becks
2Fat Tire
3Mac n Jacks
4Alaskan Amber
8Kirin
I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
    BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results?

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