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Re: SQL Server 2008 R2 - Reorganize Index taking too long

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Gene Wirchenko (genew@ocis.net) writes:
> On Fri, 6 May 2011 10:44:32 +0000 (UTC), Erland Sommarskog
><esquel@sommarskog.se> wrote:
> 
>>Reorganisation uses a kind of bubble-sort algorithm, and in some situation 
>>it can take some time to handle a fairly small amount of fragmentation.
> 
>      Bubble sort?  Why?
 
It may not be exactly bubble-sort. But what happens is that SQL Server
swaps place of two pages at a time. The advantage with this is that
REORGANIZE can be an online operation. But it may not always be the 
most efficient.

REBUILD means a complete rebuild of the index, but this means that the
table is unaccessible while the rebuild is running. (Although, in
Enterprise Edition it is possible to do online rebuilds.) 

-- 
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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SQL Server 2008 R2 - Reorganize Index taking too long SGoncalves <goncalves.sergiom@gmail.com> - 2011-05-06 02:09 -0700
  Re: SQL Server 2008 R2 - Reorganize Index taking too long Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2011-05-06 10:44 +0000
    Re: SQL Server 2008 R2 - Reorganize Index taking too long SGoncalves <goncalves.sergiom@gmail.com> - 2011-05-06 06:59 -0700
    Re: SQL Server 2008 R2 - Reorganize Index taking too long Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-05-06 10:23 -0700
      Re: SQL Server 2008 R2 - Reorganize Index taking too long Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2011-05-06 23:49 +0200
        Re: SQL Server 2008 R2 - Reorganize Index taking too long SGoncalves <goncalves.sergiom@gmail.com> - 2011-05-09 03:00 -0700
          Re: SQL Server 2008 R2 - Reorganize Index taking too long Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2011-05-09 23:59 +0200
            Re: SQL Server 2008 R2 - Reorganize Index taking too long SGoncalves <goncalves.sergiom@gmail.com> - 2011-05-10 03:44 -0700
              Re: SQL Server 2008 R2 - Reorganize Index taking too long Henk van den Berg <hvandenberg@xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-10 12:51 +0200
                Re: SQL Server 2008 R2 - Reorganize Index taking too long Henk van den Berg <hvandenberg@xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-10 12:53 +0200
              Re: SQL Server 2008 R2 - Reorganize Index taking too long Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2011-05-10 23:36 +0200
                Re: SQL Server 2008 R2 - Reorganize Index taking too long SGoncalves <goncalves.sergiom@gmail.com> - 2011-05-11 03:22 -0700

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