If outage is an issue then seriously look into the SQL Enterprise license, it allows online reindexing. It’s pricey, though, at around $20k/proc.

I am working on a database with more than 80 million of records. we are using sql server 2005 and have applied fulltext indexes to make search through the database.

Problem we are facing is that if there are new records in the database then after every week we have to reindex the database and also recreate the fulltext indexes for the database. We have setup the Fulltext Index catalogu to update automatically when some new records comes but still reindexing the tables of the database is too much expensive for us. Is there a way to around so that we can avoid this reindexing the table.

I do now know how to make a new post with question here on this website. I found this post related to my problem about reindex so i thought it would be good to post it here. Hope to get some solution.

Regards,
Qasim

I also wonder why the time taken is – apart from the step up – the same every day. Perhaps you are repeating the same task every day on all of your data? You could change your database design to avoid that. For instance, use a partitioned view or partitioned table. Then you can have old data that you don’t UPDATE STATISTICS on so often, only the new data. That may be not a good solution for you, but I want to say that you have many different possible remedies.

do you know why the update statistic task has past from 10 min to more than 33 min from one day to another:
monday: 10min
Tuesday: 10min
Wednesday: 33min
Thursday: 33min
Friday: 33 min

Thanks
Sylvain Dionne

In method 2, instead of a PRINT statement you could do something to log the fact that the command is about to be run, a table somewhere is the obvious idea, and immediately after running it, capture and store the error state – to a variable is a good way. Something like this:

DECLARE @returnerror int, @start datetime;
SET @start = GETDATEUTC();
INSERT LogOfReindexesByTable (tableName, startTime)
VALUES (@MyTable, @start);
DBCC DBREINDEX(@MyTable, ”, 80);
SET @returnerror = @@ERROR;
UPDATE LogOfReindexesByTable
SET endTime = GETDATEUTC(), errorCode = @returnerror
WHERE ( tableName = @MyTable AND startTime = @start );

In SQL Server 2005 you can use an ALTER TABLE statement for this operation instead of DBCC.

If you’re anxious, this may be a prudent test for problems in your database: DBCC CHECKDB() WITH DATA_PURITY
(The WITH part is only for SQL Server 2005 and for databases where it doesn’t run by default, including databases that were created on SQL Server 2000, and if it runs without errors it becomes the default for that database. It can also be reversed.)

Incidentally, databases from 2000 also really need DBCC UPDATEUSAGE done. It may also ¤ix performance problems. I forget whether I read that in Microsoft documentation, but it’s genuine although apparently not written prominently enough in upgrade documentation for the colleague who upgraded some of our servers to be aware of it.

Otherwise, both versions do basically the same thing: repeatedly construct and execute a string containing a SQL statement referring to each table (user table?) in a database in turn – table1, table2, table3.

If you don’t frequently add or remove tables in your database, you can use a similar design to construct and print out a command for each table in a database, and make a stored procedure containing all the commands. That means you won’t be doing the fancy stuff during your maintenance process, only the actual maintenance commands.

What is the difference between both Methods.

I have created the reindexing job from 1st option of reindexing.
After executing the job I am getting the Job failure alert when I check with the steps Its completed successfully.
We always get result like this
DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator.
I believe jaob is failing due to above alert.
When I go with second option of reindexing which is through procedure.
Output is coming
Command completed succesfully.
So we can assume Reindexing have been completed on all the tables or Is there any way to know about reindexing status whether it is completed or not…

Second question is above two method is also applicable for SQL 2000.

Thanks in advance..

Using SQL Server Express 2005
VB.NET 2005 app connecting to SQL database

Option 1 works beautifully for me, but only when I have SQL Server open.

As soon as I close the SQL session, my database performance falls to the floor again.

Any assistance could be greatly appreciated

Steven

Does Microsoft even make 24/7 products? I think if you need 24/7 availability, you should build it from components that are not required to be 24/7 individually. Switch to a backup server. Do something like RAID hard disks do.

I’m also pursuing how to update statistics with fullscan. I’m not sure if I need it but I want to know how to get it.

scenario, seg1, seg2, seg3,seg4, period,qty,amt,price

and all the tables have similar structure .

Unique clustered index was created on each table.

When we try to search a record from 66 tables it was taking approximatley 7 minutes. How to reduce the time to run the query faster.

its a simple query like

select top 1 from sales_Fact
where seg1 = 111

like above , 66 sql statements should run and each table has got around 10million records.

I appreciate for quick reply

Thanks in advance

Murali

scenario, seg1, seg2, seg3,seg4, period,qty,amt,price

and all the tables have similar structure .

Unique clustered index was created on each table.

When we try to search a record from 66 tables it was taking approximatley 7 minutes. How to reduce the time to run the query faster.

its a simple query like

I work at an air force base and needed this command.

I am running SQL 2005 STANDARD – database about 40 GB. i need to have the database online 24/7. If i do RE_INDEX slowing down the user (grows 2 GB more). so i decided to DEFRAG index. now my database grown to 110 GB.

1st quest: Trucation–>DEFRAG index–> Full backp (No update statistics yet) after that i am doing hourly Transaction log backup. please suggest me the best way to handle this.

Also i am getting “[SQLSTATE 01000] (Message 4035) A nonrecoverable I/O error occurred on file” on Transaction Log backup. please help.thanks

i am running MS SQL 2005, the problem is i always encounter this error

“The instance of the SQL Server Database Engine cannot obtain a LOCK resource at this time. Rerun your statement when there are fewer active users. Ask the database administrator to check the lock and memory configuration for this instance, or to check for long-running transactions.”

do i need to defragment or reindex the database? how am i going to do that?

is there a way i can reindex/defrag the whole database or do i need to reindex/defrag it per table?

size of database is 120GB – Hard Disk Size is 410GB
Memory used is 9+GB – Memory Size is 26GB
HP Proliant DL380 G5 quad core

we’re using SAP Business One application Patch Version PL45.