DBCC IndexDefrag Or DBCC REINDEX

Hi ,
Do the IndexDefrag or DBCC REINDEX auto truncate of shrink the files
after process ?
What is the properly method after perform IndexDefrag or REINDEX ?
Currently , I shrink the log , restart the server and perform either index
derag command. It is the right procedure to go ?
Thanks ,
Travis
DBCC INDEXDEFRAG and DBREINDEX operate at page level in your database files,
the first reorganising the leaf level of your indexes (and effectively
freeing some page but NOT releasing them) and the second dropping and
rebuilding one or more indexes. Anyway those two statements will never shrink
your database or part of it.
About the transaction log shrinking, i suppose you are strongly searching
for stporage space, otherwise you are spending a lot of administrative effort
for poor results: what you are shrinking now, will grow (automatically or
manually) in the next few hours.
Gilberto Zampatti
"Travis" wrote:

> Hi ,
> Do the IndexDefrag or DBCC REINDEX auto truncate of shrink the files
> after process ?
> What is the properly method after perform IndexDefrag or REINDEX ?
> Currently , I shrink the log , restart the server and perform either index
> derag command. It is the right procedure to go ?
> Thanks ,
> Travis
>
|||In addition to the other posts, related to shrink, check out:
http://www.karaszi.com/SQLServer/info_dont_shrink.asp
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/tibor_karaszi
"Travis" <Travis@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi ,
> Do the IndexDefrag or DBCC REINDEX auto truncate of shrink the files
> after process ?
> What is the properly method after perform IndexDefrag or REINDEX ?
> Currently , I shrink the log , restart the server and perform either index
> derag command. It is the right procedure to go ?
> Thanks ,
> Travis
>
|||Hi Travis
"Travis" wrote:

> Hi ,
> Do the IndexDefrag or DBCC REINDEX auto truncate of shrink the files
> after process ?
> What is the properly method after perform IndexDefrag or REINDEX ?
> Currently , I shrink the log , restart the server and perform either index
> derag command. It is the right procedure to go ?
> Thanks ,
> Travis
You don't say what the recovery model is, but I would assume it is full or
bulk logged?
If your system can handle the maximum size that the transaction log reaches
then it is probably better not to shrink the file see
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/info_dont_shrink.asp and the links if
references.
If you are running the defragmentation for all indexes look at the example E
for DBCC SHOWCONTIG in books online or at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa258803(SQL.80).aspx and reduce the
amount of work and growth of the log file size.
I am not sure why you wish to stop/start the server?
John