tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21211117944669791852024-09-08T12:13:39.367-05:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2121111794466979185.post-27941498380114512002010-02-18T19:00:00.000-06:002010-02-18T19:00:02.191-06:00

I've become a big fan of Ola Hallengren's SQL Server 2005 and 2008 database maintenance solution since I discovered it a few months ago. As anyone that has delved very far into the Reorganize and Rebuild Indexes tasks in SQL 2005/2008 maintenance plans knows, they couldn't exactly be described as 'sophisticated'. The tasks do not take the existing fragmentation level in the indexes into account -

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I ran into an interesting problem the other day with a SQL Server on a virtual machine that was a clone of another machine. My co-workers had received a request for another virtual machine that had the same data on it as an older, test server for use in production. So, rather than build a new machine from scratch and backup/restore the test data to it, they simply cloned the virtual machine and

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