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Adding NDF Increases Fragmentation?

  • July 10, 2014 at 11:51 am

    #290876

    Good afternoon

    Just a quick question, if I add an .NDF to my SQl server, would that increase the fragmentation of the indexes?

    Thanks in advance!

  • July 10, 2014 at 12:09 pm

    #1728485

    No. Fragmentation of an index is a measure of how much the logical order and physical order of an index differ. It's caused by page splits and database shrink operations.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • July 10, 2014 at 2:25 pm

    #1728517

    Ok - thank you very much. I appreciate the information.

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