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Why disabling a clustered index makes the table inaccessible?

When an index is disabled, the definition remains in the system catalog but is no longer used. SQL Server does not maintain the index (as data in the table changes), and the index cannot be used to ...
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SQL Server: Sync Indexes between two tables within Same database

I need to automate and Sync only indexes between two tables ( Primary and Stage_Table) within same database. Tried using SSIS SQL Server Objects Task, but looks like it works only when we sync between ...
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SQl server indexes file damaged, was on ramdisk!

I have put some of my indexes into a file-group that contains one file, that file is on the ramdisk, the performance goes fire!! but the problem is that the file has deleted by wrong (The file ...
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Why does CREATE INDEX … WITH ONLINE=ON block access to the table over a period of minutes?

I have an existing table: CREATE TABLE dbo.ProofDetails ( ProofDetailsID int NOT NULL CONSTRAINT PK_ProofDetails PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED IDENTITY(1,1), ProofID int NULL, ...
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Rebuilding Unique Index with uniqueidentifier in SQL Azure never succeeds

We have a number of tables (~1M records) that have a column on them defined as: [GlobalID] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL that gets auto-populated with newid(). We use this ID for synchronizing data ...
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Clustered vs Nonclustered Index

My database currently has a primary Key/Clustered index on the ID column for each table. However, the application that connects to the database is always looking at views defined as: SELECT * FROM ...
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Reducing Log Impact During Re-Indexing

We use Ola's maintenance solution and its great. Regardless of method for re-indexing a major friction point with IT is the amount of log generated during the weekly re-indexing process. For a 1TB ...
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Validate Primary Key and Index Selection

I have a table that will store transaction data from store sales registers, I have read quite a bit on index and key choice and below is what I have concluded is the best option but I am new to this ...
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Suspended in index rebuild

In SQL Server 2012, an Index Rebuild job is taking a very long time (up to 8 hours). However, not even one Index rebuild completed, so I stopped the index job. In monitoring SQL task: state = ...
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When REBUILDing indexes on SQL Server, what bearing does tempdb & LOG disk speed have?

Say I have the a data disk that is 50x faster than the LOG and tempdb (measured by Random Write speed) disk. (Don't ask why that's something we'll be fixing if needed) I have a table that's got 19 ...
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1answer
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How can I alter the fill factor of an index outside of an ALTER INDEX command?

I am using a COTS package to perform index rebuilds across my SQL Server portfolio. The package unfortunately doesn't have an option to set index fill factors globally for an individual instance or DB ...
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Why is a hash match operator in this very basic query

I'm beginning to learn some about looking at execution plans and making queries more efficient Consider these two basic queries select distinct pat_id, drug_class, drug_name from rx select pat_id, ...
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Programmatically find indexes that cannot be rebuilt online

I am automating rebuild and reorganise indexes using T-SQL. I run into problems with indexes that cannot be rebuilt online. Primarily this happens because ntext/nvarchar columns are included. Is ...
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Differences Between Two Different Create Index Commands

Are there differences between these two scripts? Or would all of the extra tokens/attributes (ie: NONCLUSTERED, WITH..., etc...) for the 1st script be defaults in SQL Server 2008 for the 2nd script? ...
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What are the differences between leaf and non-leaf pages?

I've been running some index usage reports, and I'm trying to get a definition of Leaf and Non-leaf. There seem to be both Leaf and Non-leaf Inserts, Updates, Deletes, Page Merges, and Page ...

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