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 Posted by Stu on 06/26/06 21:17 
Did you not already post this message before, or am i experiencing deja 
vu? 
 
Your database id's are different, which means that you ran the 
showcontig command on a different database.  Did you make a backup and 
restore it? 
 
Raziq Shekha wrote: 
> Hi Folks, 
> 
> SQL Server 2000 SP3 on Windows 2000.  I have a database on which I ran 
> the command : 
> 
> dbcc dbreindex ('tablename') 
> go 
> 
> for all tables in the database. Then I compared the dbcc showcontig 
> with all_index output from before and after the reindex and on the 
> largest table in the database I found this. First output is prior to 
> reindex: 
> 
> 
> Table: 'PlannedTransferArchive' (1975014117); index ID: 1, database ID: 
> 7 
> TABLE level scan performed. 
> - Pages Scanned................................: 184867 
> - Extents Scanned..............................: 23203 
> - Extent Switches..............................: 23324 
> - Avg. Pages per Extent........................: 8.0 
> - Scan Density [Best Count:Actual Count].......: 99.07% [23109:23325] 
> - Logical Scan Fragmentation ..................: 11.13% 
> - Extent Scan Fragmentation ...................: 35.46% 
> - Avg. Bytes Free per Page.....................: 60.0 
> - Avg. Page Density (full).....................: 99.26% 
> 
> 
> Second output is from after the reindex: 
> 
> 
> 
> DBCC SHOWCONTIG scanning 'PlannedTransferArchive' table... 
> Table: 'PlannedTransferArchive' (1975014117); index ID: 1, database ID: 
> 8 
> TABLE level scan performed. 
> - Pages Scanned................................: 303177 
> - Extents Scanned..............................: 37964 
> - Extent Switches..............................: 42579 
> - Avg. Pages per Extent........................: 8.0 
> - Scan Density [Best Count:Actual Count].......: 89.00% [37898:42580] 
> - Logical Scan Fragmentation ..................: 43.19% 
> - Extent Scan Fragmentation ...................: 24.78% 
> - Avg. Bytes Free per Page.....................: 75.1 
> - Avg. Page Density (full).....................: 99.07% 
> 
> 
> Following are my concerns: 
> 
> The following numbers are all higher after reindex than before reindex: 
> 
> pages scanned, extent switches, logical scan fragmentation, avg bytes 
> free per page, avg page density. 
> 
> scan density is lower after reindex than before reindex 
> 
> Seems to me that the numbers that are higher after reindex should be 
> lower and numbers that are lower after reindex should be higher? I 
> didn't specify the fill factor in the dbcc reindex command so it should 
> have used the default fill factor. The fill factor has never been 
> changed on this machine. 
> 
> Am I missing something? 
> 
> Thanks, 
> Raziq. 
>  
>  
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