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.
SQL Server Maintenance Techniques: A Comprehensive Guide to Keeping Your Server Running Smoothly
This comprehensive guide explore into some essential maintenance techniques and best practices to ensure your SQL Server deployment.
Query Progress: Watching a Running Plan With dm_exec_query_profiles
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.
Ten Plan Operators Explained: An Operator Cheat Sheet
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.
What is the Replacement of DBCC DBREINDEX? – Interview Question of the Week #263
Question: What is the Replacement of DBCC DBREINDEX?
Answer: The answer to this question is very simple.
Here is the syntax:
Query Runs Slow Occasionally: Five Checks to Find Why
When a query runs slow occasionally, the cause sits around the query: a lock, a job, a file growth, tempdb or a shortage of worker threads. This post gives one tested T-SQL check for each and a small demo for blocking and file growth. It also says what to do when all five checks find nothing.
DBCC DBREINDEX: Replace It With ALTER INDEX in SQL Server
DBCC DBREINDEX still runs on SQL Server 2025, but it is deprecated, and ALTER INDEX does everything it did and more. This post rebuilds a fragmented demo table both ways, shows the options only ALTER INDEX has, and finds old uses of DBCC DBREINDEX in your own modules, Agent jobs and the deprecation counter.