Indexes with more than 128 extents are rebuilt in two separate phases: logical and physical.Mixed extents are shared by up to eight objects, so the fragmentation in a small index might not be reduced after reorganizing or rebuilding the index. The pages of small indexes are sometimes stored on mixed extents. In general, fragmentation on small indexes is often not controllable. Very low levels of fragmentation (less than 5 percent) should not be addressed by either of these commands because the benefit from removing such a small amount of fragmentation is almost always vastly outweighed by the cost of reorganizing or rebuilding the index. It is important that you experiment to determine the best threshold for your environment. However, the actual values may vary from case to case. These values provide a rough guideline for determining the point at which you should switch between ALTER INDEX REORGANIZE and ALTER INDEX REBUILD. To achieve availability similar to the reorganize option, you should rebuild indexes online. Reorganizing an index is always executed online. * Rebuilding an index can be executed online or offline. The number of fragments (physically consecutive leaf pages) in the indexĪverage number of pages in one fragment in an indexĪfter the degree of fragmentation is known, use the following table to determine the best method to correct the fragmentation. The percent of logical fragmentation (out-of-order pages in the index) The result set returned by the sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats function includes the following columns. For partitioned indexes, sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats also provides fragmentation information for each partition. By using the system function sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats, you can detect fragmentation in a specific index, all indexes on a table or indexed view, all indexes in a database, or all indexes in all databases. The first step in deciding which defragmentation method to use is to analyze the index to determine the degree of fragmentation. Compaction is based on the existing fill factor value. Reorganizing also compacts the index pages. It defragments the leaf level of clustered and non-clustered indexes on tables and views by physically reordering the leaf-level pages to match the logical, left to right, order of the leaf nodes. Reorganizing an index uses minimal system resources. When ALL is specified, all indexes on the table are dropped and rebuilt in a single transaction. This removes fragmentation, reclaims disk space by compacting the pages based on the specified or existing fill factor setting, and reorders the index rows in contiguous pages. Rebuilding an index drops and re-creates the index. For partitioned indexes built on a partition scheme, you can use either of these methods on a complete index or a single partition of an index. You can remedy index fragmentation by reorganizing or rebuilding an index. Heavily fragmented indexes can degrade query performance and cause your application to respond slowly. Fragmentation exists when indexes have pages in which the logical ordering, based on the key value, does not match the physical ordering inside the data file. Over time these modifications can cause the information in the index to become scattered in the database (fragmented). The SQL Server Database Engine automatically maintains indexes whenever insert, update, or delete operations are made to the underlying data. This topic describes how to reorganize or rebuild a fragmented index in SQL Server 2017 by using SQL Server Management Studio or Transact-SQL. Reorganize and Rebuild Indexes in the Database
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