What Is Index Fragmentation in MS SQL Server?
Submitted by: AdministratorIndex fragmentation is a phenomena where index contents are no longer stored continuously in the storage. When index contents become scattered in the storage, fragmented, performance on index will degrade.
If you want to see the fragmentation level of an index, you can use the system function called sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats() in the following format:
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats(
database_id, table_id, index_id, DEFAULT, DEFAULT
)
The tutorial exercise below shows you how to view the fragmentation level of all indexes on table "ggl_links_indexed":
USE GlobalGuideLineDatabase
GO
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ggl_links_indexed;
GO
100000
SELECT i.index_id, i.name, s.avg_fragmentation_in_percent
FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats (
DB_ID(N'GlobalGuideLineDatabase'),
OBJECT_ID(N'ggl_links_indexed'),
DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT) s, sys.indexes i
WHERE s.object_id = i.object_id
AND s.index_id = i.index_id;
GO
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If you want to see the fragmentation level of an index, you can use the system function called sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats() in the following format:
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats(
database_id, table_id, index_id, DEFAULT, DEFAULT
)
The tutorial exercise below shows you how to view the fragmentation level of all indexes on table "ggl_links_indexed":
USE GlobalGuideLineDatabase
GO
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ggl_links_indexed;
GO
100000
SELECT i.index_id, i.name, s.avg_fragmentation_in_percent
FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats (
DB_ID(N'GlobalGuideLineDatabase'),
OBJECT_ID(N'ggl_links_indexed'),
DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT) s, sys.indexes i
WHERE s.object_id = i.object_id
AND s.index_id = i.index_id;
GO
Submitted by: Administrator
<pre>index_id name avg_fragmentation_in_percent
0 NULL 0.574712643678161
2 ggl_links_url 0
3 ggl_links_counts 0</pre>
Since there is no clustered index (index_id=0) on this table, the first row in the return is just a place holder.
The other two rows show that "ggl_links_url" and "ggl_links_counts" have zero fragmentation, since they were created not long ago.
Submitted by: Administrator
0 NULL 0.574712643678161
2 ggl_links_url 0
3 ggl_links_counts 0</pre>
Since there is no clustered index (index_id=0) on this table, the first row in the return is just a place holder.
The other two rows show that "ggl_links_url" and "ggl_links_counts" have zero fragmentation, since they were created not long ago.
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