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Your Index Rebuild Maintenance Plan Is Rebuilding Indexes Nobody Uses

September 17, 2026
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Maintenance Plan, SQL Index, SQL Statistics

Your index rebuild maintenance plan takes four hours every Sunday, fills the log and delays the backup. It may be buying you far less than everybody assumes.

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SQL Server Maintenance Techniques

SQL Server Maintenance Techniques: A Comprehensive Guide to Keeping Your Server Running Smoothly

October 6, 2023
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Hardware, Maintenance Plan, SQL Audit, SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Error Messages, SQL Index, SQL Log, SQL Server Security, SQL Statistics, SQL Upgrade, Testing

This comprehensive guide explore into some essential maintenance techniques and best practices to ensure your SQL Server deployment.

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Query Progress: Watching a Running Plan With dm_exec_query_profiles

July 28, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Execution Plan, Maintenance Plan, SQL Server

Elapsed time cannot tell you if a query is almost done. Live operator rows can. See how to read them and how far to trust the percentage.

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Ten Plan Operators Explained: An Operator Cheat Sheet

March 4, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Execution Plan, Maintenance Plan, SQL Operator

Seek, scan, lookup, three joins, sort, aggregate, spool and parallelism, each shown with a tiny demo. Learn to judge a plan by rows and executions.

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What is the Replacement of DBCC DBREINDEX? – Interview Question of the Week #263

February 9, 2020
Pinal Dave
Personal
Maintenance Plan, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server DBCC

Question: What is the Replacement of DBCC DBREINDEX?

Answer: The answer to this question is very simple.

Here is the syntax:

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slow query

SQL SERVER – 5 Important Steps When Query Runs Slow Occasionally

September 7, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Maintenance Plan, SQL Data Storage, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Configuration, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Stored Procedure, SQL TempDB, SQL Wait Stats

This was a very interesting situation and at the end of we had found the culprit for the slow query and resolved it. Today we will discuss the experience.

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DBCC DBREINDEX

SQL SERVER – Stop Using DBCC DBREINDEX and Use ALTER INDEX

August 26, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Maintenance Plan, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server DBCC

It has been over a decade since the comment DBCC DBREINDEX has been deprecated, however, once in a while I still encounter them while working with clients.

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