Just a day ago, while using one index I was not able to get the desired performance from the table where it was applied. I just looked for its fragmentation and found it was heavily fragmented. After I reorganized index it worked perfectly fine. Here is the quick script I wrote to find fragmentation of the database for all the indexes.
SELECT ps.database_id, ps.OBJECT_ID,
ps.index_id, b.name,
ps.avg_fragmentation_in_percent
FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats (DB_ID(), NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL) AS ps
INNER JOIN sys.indexes AS b ON ps.OBJECT_ID = b.OBJECT_ID
AND ps.index_id = b.index_id
WHERE ps.database_id = DB_ID()
ORDER BY ps.OBJECT_ID
GO
You can REBUILD or REORGANIZE Index and improve performance. Here is article SQL SERVER – Difference Between Index Rebuild and Index Reorganize Explained with T-SQL Script for how to do it.
Reference : Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)
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thank you, that’s helpful.
i got a script that automates the index maintenance (if 10% fragmented use reorganize, and if 30% or more use rebuild).. however after performing the reindex, the database queries somehow take longer to executed (lots of users got timeouts)… if i stop the job (no reindex is performed), the queries go back to normal time… do you know what happened? is it due to the statistics? thx
what is index id 0 and name NULL in the result of this query????
I can see for the same object id,it has entry for each index(which is fine) but it also have few entries with 0 index id and name is NULL. what is this???
Thanks Pinal. Here is another query which returns very quickly.
SELECT dbschemas.[name] as ‘Schema’,
dbtables.[name] as ‘TableName’,
dbindexes.[name] as ‘Index’,
indexstats.avg_fragmentation_in_percent,
indexstats.page_count
FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats (DB_ID(), NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL) AS indexstats
INNER JOIN sys.tables dbtables on dbtables.[object_id] = indexstats.[object_id]
INNER JOIN sys.schemas dbschemas on dbtables.[schema_id] = dbschemas.[schema_id]
INNER JOIN sys.indexes AS dbindexes ON dbindexes.[object_id] = indexstats.[object_id]
AND indexstats.index_id = dbindexes.index_id
WHERE indexstats.database_id = DB_ID()
ORDER BY indexstats.avg_fragmentation_in_percent desc