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• Fragmentation Station - Stop #8 - Hands On Experience

  In our final stop for the fragmentation series we're going to walk through a complete script that will cover almost everything we've discussed in the series, including: New object creation and allocation (heaps, clustered, non-clustered indexes... Posted Mar 01 2008, 12:34 PM by Chad Boyd with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: storage, Fragmentation, internals

• Fragmentation Station - Stop #7 - How to address it

  In our 2nd to last post in the Fragmentation series , we'll discuss our options on addressing and removing/correcting fragmentation. In our next and final post in the series, we'll end with a full-fledged SQL script that will walk you through... Posted Feb 23 2008, 08:12 AM by Chad Boyd with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: storage, Fragmentation, internals

• Fragmentation Station - Stop #6b - Custom Detection Procedure, Page Linkage

  In post #6 of the series, I mentioned that I often get asked for alternative methods of looking at fragmentation, a way to view the page chain or linkage, and ways to get insight into which pages are out of order in a given structure. There is nothing... Posted Feb 22 2008, 02:41 PM by Chad Boyd with | with no comments Filed under: storage, Fragmentation, internals

• Fragmentation Station - Stop #6 - How to detect it

  In our 6th post in the fragmentation series (I now know we are going to have 8 total) we are going to talk about the different ways to determine if you have fragmentation, and what type of fragmentation you have. This type of analysis will help you determine... Posted Feb 22 2008, 02:12 PM by Chad Boyd with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: storage, Fragmentation, internals

• Fragmentation Station #5 - What it impacts (performance), and what it doesn't

  In post #4 in the series, we talked about ways to avoid each type of fragmentation - in this 5th post in the series we'll discuss how each type of fragmentation impacts performance, what to expect in terms of impacted operations, and when you possibly... Posted Feb 17 2008, 09:15 PM by Chad Boyd with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: storage, Fragmentation, internals

• Fragmentation Station - Stop #4 - How to avoid it

  In the prior post , we discussed the major causes for each type of fragmentation, which followed posts covering storage basics and access methods and what fragmentation is and the types there are . In this 4th post in in the series, we'll discuss... Posted Feb 13 2008, 03:31 PM by Chad Boyd with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: storage, Fragmentation, internals

• Fragmentation Station - Stop #3 - What causes it

  In the prior post ( http://chadhoc.net/post/2008/01/Fragmentation-Station---Stop-2---What-it-is%2c-what-types-there-are.aspx ), we got through discussing the different types of fragmentation, and showed some diagrams of what they would conceptually look... Posted Feb 07 2008, 02:49 PM by Chad Boyd with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: storage, Fragmentation, internals