Comments on: Automated Index Defrag Script

By: Meghana

Meghana — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:23:15 +0000

Hi ,

Great Script…

I have few query on this script…
In this script ,
its checking if @allowPageLocks =0 (count for index which have Allow_Page_Locks=0) and if object have 1 or more LOB Objects then although index fragmentation value exceeds the rebuidthreshold value , it dont make rebuid , but make reorganization on it.

I am a little confused on it, and need to know , what is reason that we should do rebuid on index if we found ,1 or more LOB objects and Allow_Page_Locks=0

By: Mike S

Mike S — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:12:43 +0000

Hey Michelle – I seem to remember you once had some logic in this that had the procedure quit if it went outside a maintenance window (e.g. if it ran past 5 AM server time). Is my memory playing tricks in my old age?

PS. How’s the baby?

By: D

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:16:13 +0000

Thanks very much for this – I’ve used it and trimmed it to my needs (removed the log tables etc).

Amazing piece of work though. Nice one.

By: IRFAN

IRFAN — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:28:23 +0000

GETTING ERROR WHEN CREATING THE PROCEDURE

Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Procedure dba_indexDefrag_sp, Line 464
Incorrect syntax near ‘OBJECT_ID’.

By: How do you want your index? | Verity

How do you want your index? | Verity — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:32:07 +0000

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By: DSA

DSA — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:42:05 +0000

Hello,

Have you this script for sql server 2000?

By: Adriano

Adriano — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:17:06 +0000

Hi, I apologize for my English (I’m Italian). I want to know how to use the script and the extension.
Can I use it on a database maintained by iAnywhere?
Thanks

By: Michelle Ufford

Michelle Ufford — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:16:25 +0000

Hi Sunil,

The job is probably not hung. My guess if you either have a lot of indexes that need to be defragged, or some are really large. Most likely a combination of both. Regardless, if you need to kill the job, rest assured that nothing needs to be rolled back and that the indexes will *not* be dropped.

Hope that helps.

Michelle

By: sunil

sunil — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:35:04 +0000

Hi Michelle,

I started my rebuild index job and its running for hours and i could see the job is hung, can i kill it ,if so will the indexes gets dropped or not, please let me know.

Regards
Sunil.B

By: Leon Orlov

Leon Orlov — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:49:19 +0000

Thank you. Very useful script for large databases. I fixed a few minor issues reported above. Made some additional modification and make is a permanent member of my sql_script library.

By rebuilding/reorg-ing index with this script you can cut time significantly to avoid unnecessary index rebuilds.

cheers