Comments on: Index Defrag Script, v3.0

By: mike

mike — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:39:58 +0000

Many, many thanks. I’m what some would call in involuntary DBA, so jewels like this are worth more than gold!

My God bless you for your efforts!

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:07:22 +0000

Hi everyone, I am an IT Admin at a small office. I have little to no dba experience and I found this script to help defrag and rebuild index if necessary. Thank you Michelle for sharing such a wonderful script. However, when I paste this script and tried to run it, I get these errors.

Caution: Changing any part of an object name could break scripts and stored procedures.
Caution: Changing any part of an object name could break scripts and stored procedures.
Caution: Changing any part of an object name could break scripts and stored procedures.
dba_indexDefragLog Table Created
dba_indexDefragExclusion Table Created
Msg 2714, Level 16, State 4, Line 43
There is already an object named ‘PK_indexDefragStatus_v40′ in the database.
Msg 1750, Level 16, State 0, Line 43
Could not create constraint. See previous errors.
Msg 2714, Level 16, State 3, Procedure dba_indexDefrag_sp, Line 834
There is already an object named ‘dba_indexDefrag_sp’ in the database.

It always runs the first time creating the tables only, then reports that it has been completed. However, I know there are a lot of fragmentation on my database. Any help is greatly appreciated. I need to get this to run asap for everyone in the office is complaining that it is slow.

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By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:26:32 +0000

Thanks for the script. It is very clever. I did have one database with a hyphen in the name, so I modified line 477 to put brackets around the name.

From [' + DB_Name(@databaseID) + '].sys.partitions

By: pjdiller

pjdiller — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:25:39 +0000

Love it. Having trouble with it on SQl 2005 Ent. 64-bit SP3, in SQL_Latin1_General_CP850_BIN2 collation (don’t know if that’s my problem),

I fixed the case-sensitivity problems as described already, but for whatever reason, it skips the database I’m most interested in defragmenting. I haven’t seen an error message, and there is absolutely work to do in the DB. It’s name is simple, 3 letters, that’s it.

Any ideas?

By: Michelle Ufford

Michelle Ufford — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:19:59 +0000

Hi everyone. Sorry for accidentally spamming you earlier when I approved a bunch of comments.

I’ve just posted a significant update to my index defrag script. You can find the latest version, along with a list of the changes, here: http://sqlfool.com/2010/04/index-defrag-script-v4-0/

By: evil lady Dia

evil lady Dia — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:58:59 +0000

Michelle,

Thank you very much for the script. Just what I needed to get a small DB tuning to work just right.

Dia

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:24:29 +0000

I just wanted to thank you for sharing this.

-Steve

By: gary

gary — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:23:10 +0000

Can we use this Index defrag stored procedure for Share point databases?

We have a very large Content database of size 150 GB

Thanks do much