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An Index for Change Tracking Cleanup

James Ferebee creates an index:

If the issue persists and we stack a lot of data that needs to be removed which can be too much for autocleanup to manage. At that point, we recommend running (as is indicated in the error message) sp_flush_CT_internal_table_on_demand which is discusseed in detailed in Amit’s blog post Change Tracking Cleanup–Part 1.

I will not discuss the internals of the process as Amit Banerjee already touched on this in the referenced blog. However if you are routinely encountering issues where autocleanup can’t keep up and/or manual cleanup is taking significant time, you can add the index and see if it helps and I have the process enumerated below. Keep in mind this is not guaranteed to fix all cleanup issues and it may still be necessary to run manual cleanup regularly. If you continue to have issues with cleanup feel free to create a ticket with us here at CSS to assist you and get specific data to your environment.

Read on for the index definition as well as some important notes about whether you might need it.