Comments on: March Madness – SQL Server System Tables – sysindexes https://thomaslarock.com/2011/03/march-madness-sql-server-system-tables-sysindexes/ Thomas LaRock is an author, speaker, data expert, and SQLRockstar. He helps people connect, learn, and share. Along the way he solves data problems, too. Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:25:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Michael Codanti https://thomaslarock.com/2011/03/march-madness-sql-server-system-tables-sysindexes/#comment-2400 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:25:56 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=5510#comment-2400 I have to say that I have found a number of times that I have to drop the clustered index to get reasonable performance for a large table re-build. Of course I put it back after the re-build, but I’m not sure it is necessary. It is like I have found it is faster to rebuild the table with compression set to none, and then compress the table while building the CI. (Of course that requires more space.)

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