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Thoughts on Index Rebuilds

Kevin Hill shares some thoughts:

Here’s the truth: if you’re doing this daily on indexes smaller than 10,000 pages, you might be chewing up CPU, bloating your logs, and annoying your users  for zero gain.

Let’s fix that.

I disagree with Kevin on index reorganization, in that I would never perform index reorgs—there’s no there there. Even so, I firmly agree with the thrust of Kevin’s argument and believe that, in the majority of cases, companies with DBAs (or people who have stumbled through maintenance plans before) are maintaining indexes too much rather than not enough.

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