More of the same with the next Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server book giveaway. So far, I’ve sent out sixcopies of the bookbased on comments from the past six(1, 2 , 3 , 4 ,5, and6)posts. I’ve made a small change to the title of the series (week vs. part), mainly because getting a kid off to college and summer vacation has been interfering with the rate of posts. There will still be thirteenposts, though, going until they are all given away.
To re-cap from previous posts, Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server is a book I co-wrote with Grant Fritchey ( Blog | @gfritchey ) last summer, which isa valuable resource to anyone building indexes on SQL Server. As part of finishing the book, Apress sent me a numberofcopies of the book to share with people. I figured the best way to share these out is togive them away to people that comment on this blog.
So here’s a topic for leaving a comment this week…
The QuestionFor part seven,the question will focus on chapter nine,which covers index maintenance. The topic for discussion in the comments this time is…
Do you think that defragmenting indexes is worthwhile? Why or why not? What evidence do you have to support your position?
If you have a story or opinionto share, leave a comment below. After about a week (once I return from vacation), I’ll select one of the comments and send that author a copy of the book.