Comments on: Automated Index Defrag Script

By: Madhu.G

Madhu.G — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:23:13 +0000

Nice work, Thank you for the script.

By: Michelle Ufford

Michelle Ufford — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:30:04 +0000

Thank you, Tim! I appreciate the kind feedback.

By: Tim Shay

Tim Shay — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:31:27 +0000

Awesome script! I’ve been chasing index maintenance manually for a good while, planning to write something just like this… but when you’re the operational, development and support DBA wrapped in one, things like that seem to slip down the to-do list, and you end up wasting sooooo much time chasing the issues later. So it’s really good to find a script like this…well done!

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:44:28 +0000

Something to check if you are getting odd errors on sp_ExecuteSQL:

If you are getting errors about sp_ExecuteSQL then check your DB’s Collation settings and you’ll most likley find that it’s a case sensative selection and that in turn can cause probelms if just one of the characters in your SQL code is not the correct case.

Just something to check that I found. The Sample AdventureWorks DB from Microsoft is set to a case senative collation

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:17:01 +0000

Michelle,
I actually replaced ‘SP_EXECUTESQL’ with ’sp_executesql’ and it worked. Hope this helps.

By: Michelle Ufford

Michelle Ufford — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:07:33 +0000

@Chris and @Tim – I’m not sure what’s causing that error. My Googling returned no results, although I did see a couple of forum discussions where the advice was “I’m not sure what’s causing that but you can safely ignore the error message.” Does the proc still run for you even after getting the error message? Also, please try upgrading to the latest version and seeing if that resolves the issue.

You can find the latest version here:
http://sqlfool.com/2009/06/index-defrag-script-v30/

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:27:09 +0000

I am getting the same error on a SQL 2008 server :
Cannot add rows to sys.sql_dependencies for the stored procedure because it depends on the missing table ‘SP_EXECUTESQL’. The stored procedure will still be created; however, it cannot be successfully executed until the table exists.

Any help?

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:26:52 +0000

Looks fantastic!

Anyone get the following error when trying to run it on SQL2005 Ent.?

Procedure dba_indexDefrag_sp dropped
Cannot add rows to sys.sql_dependencies for the stored procedure because it depends on the missing table ‘SP_EXECUTESQL’. The stored procedure will still be created; however, it cannot be successfully executed until the table exists.

Chris

By: gary

gary — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:41:25 +0000

Hi Michelle,

We have share point databases in SQL Server 2005 Enterprise edition in one server and BizTalk Application databases in another Server. Does this script validated to index defrag for Share point databases and BizTalk databases??

Thank You

By: gary

gary — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:32:19 +0000

Michelle Ufford,

Does the new version of this script is released??