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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 runs every Sunday night, takes four hours, fills your transaction log, delays your backup, and may be buying you a great deal 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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dbcc reindex

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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Index reorganization update statistics.

Do Index Reorganization Update Statistics? – Interview Question of the Week #196

October 21, 2018
Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
Maintenance Plan, SQL Index, SQL Performance, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Statistics

Question: Do Index Reorganization Update Statistics?

Answer: No. Index Reorganization does not update Statistics of your database.

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Maintenance Plan Icon.

SQL SERVER – Unable to Run Maintenance Plan. Error: Integration Services Evaluation Period has Expired

June 6, 2018
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Maintenance Plan, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SSIS

A few days ago, one of my clients contacted me to fix an error which they were getting while using maintenance plan – Integration Services evaluation period has expired. Here is the complete error message which was taken from job history.

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