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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) Impact of parallel operations vs. serial, sort_in_tempdb...

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 all the different things we've talked about in...

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 super graceful to be honest, but you can make use...

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 if you are being impacted by it for your given...

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 might not see any impact from fragmentation at...

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 what can be done to avoid each type of fragmentation...

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 like under the covers. In this 3rd post, we'll...