This recipe demonstrates how to reorganize or rebuild an index.
We will iterate through all the indexes in the Person.Person
table in the AdventureWorks2014
database for this exercise.
Let's see how to reorganize or rebuild indexes programmatically:
Open PowerShell ISE as administrator.
Import the SQLPS module and create a new SMO Server object:
#import SQL Server module Import-Module SQLPS -DisableNameChecking #replace this with your instance name $instanceName = "localhost" $server = New-Object -TypeName Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server -ArgumentList $instanceName
Add the following script and run:
$VerbosePreference = "Continue" $databasename = "AdventureWorks2014" $database = $server.Databases[$databasename] $tableName = "Person" $schemaName = "Person" $table = $database.Tables | Where-Object Schema -like $schemaName | Where-Object Name -like $tableName #From MSDN: #EnumFragmentation enumerates a list...