Creating a 60 GB Index
Recently, I needed to create an index on a 1.5 billion row table. I’ve created some large indexes before, but this was the largest, so I thought I’d share my experience in case anyone was interested....
View ArticleAutomated Index Defrag Script
UPDATE: This script has been significantly updated. Please view the latest version at http://sqlfool.com/2011/06/index-defrag-script-v4-1/. So after much delay, here’s the latest and greatest version...
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Partitioning Tricks
For those of you who are using partitioning, or who are considering using partitioning, allow me to share some tips with you. Easy Partition Staging Tables Switching partitions (or more specifically,...
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Replication Bug with Partitioned Tables
Recently, we came across a bug in SQL Server 2005 on one of our production servers. Apparently, if you execute an ALTER TABLE statement on a replicated table with more than 128 partitions, the log...
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Index Defrag Script, v4.0
UPDATE: This script has been updated. Please view the latest version at http://sqlfool.com/2011/06/index-defrag-script-v4-1/. In my blog post, “Index Defrag Script Updates – Beta Testers Needed“, I...
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Summit 2010 Abstract Submission
Jeremiah Peschka just tweeted about the looming deadline to submit an abstract for Summit 2010. I’ve been trying to think of a good topic to present on, and this finally got my butt in gear to submit...
View ArticleIndex Interrogation for SQL Server 2008
I had previously posted an index interrogation script for SQL Server 2005. I’ve updated that script for 2008; namely, it includes filtered index definitions. For anyone interested: Declare @objectID...
View ArticleT-SQL Script for Estimating Compression Savings
A couple of weeks ago, I was working on a Microsoft PDW proof-of-concept (POC) and had to measure compression ratios. In order to do this, I fired up SSMS and wrote a little script. The script will...
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Index Defrag Script, v4.1
It’s been quite some time since my last index defrag script update. A big part of the reason for that is because I wanted to implement many of the suggestions I’ve received, but I just haven’t had the...
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Are You Approaching Your Partition Range Limits?
In my post last week, How To Estimate Data Utilization, I said that it may be my last post for a while. Well… apparently I lied. For those of you who use table partitioning, you know that you need to...
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