No Significant Fragmentation? Look Closer…

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Published on Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT Indexed on 2012/03/18 18:15 UTC
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If you are relying on using 'best-practice' percentage-based thresholds when you are creating an index maintenance plan for a SQL Server that checks the fragmentation in your pages, you may miss occasional 'edge' conditions on larger tables that will cause severe degradation in performance. It is worth being aware of patterns of data access in particular tables when judging the best threshold figure to use.

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No Significant Fragmentation? Look Closer…

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Published on Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:00:00 UT Indexed on 2012/03/18 18:14 UTC
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If you are relying on using 'best-practice' percentage-based thresholds when you are creating an index maintenance plan for a SQL Server that checks the fragmentation in your pages, you may miss occasional 'edge' conditions on larger tables that will cause severe degradation in performance. It is worth being aware of patterns of data access in particular tables when judging the best threshold figure to use.

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