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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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