Indexing

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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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Smart Index Manipulation system

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We are constantly having to drop indexesfrom tables while repopulating the datain the table. We then have to rebuild the indexes as they were before dropping them.This requires writing a custom drop and recreate index script for each unique situation. If we tryto write scripts ahead of time as soon as the indexing schemechanges on […]

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2002-08-06

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Index Locking Strategy

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This script returns the index locking strategy informationfor all user tables in a database. It also generates the required TSQL statement to alter locking strategies if required. These statements require CTRL-C and CTRL-V individually into query analyser for execution. Results are best viewed in text only. This TSQL can be wrapped in a stored procedure […]

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2002-07-04

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