Rebuild all indexes in a Database

Question

I have a very large SQL Server 2008 R2 database (1.5TB) and will be copying some data from column to column within the same table. I\'ve been told that the schema has a large nu

Answer 1

Daniel's script appears to be a good all encompassing solution, but even he admitted that his laptop ran out of memory. Here is an option I came up with. I based my procedure off of Mohammad Nizamuddin's post on TechNet. I added an initial cursor loop that pulls all the database names into a temporary table and then uses that to pull all the base table names from each of those databases.

You can optionally pass the fill factor you would prefer and specify a target database if you do not want to re-index all databases.

---

--===============================================================
-- Name:  sp_RebuildAllIndexes
-- Arguements:  [Fill Factor], [Target Database name]
-- Purpose:  Loop through all the databases on a server and
--           compile a list of all the table within them.
--           This list is then used to rebuild indexes for
--           all the tables in all the database.  Optionally,
--           you may pass a specific database name if you only
--           want to reindex that target database.
--================================================================
CREATE PROCEDURE sp_RebuildAllIndexes(
    @FillFactor     INT = 90,
    @TargetDatabase NVARCHAR(100) = NULL)
AS
    BEGIN
        DECLARE @TablesToReIndex TABLE (
            TableName VARCHAR(200)
        );
        DECLARE @DbName VARCHAR(50);
        DECLARE @TableSelect VARCHAR(MAX);
        DECLARE @DatabasesToIndex CURSOR;

        IF ISNULL( @TargetDatabase, '' ) = ''
          SET @DatabasesToIndex = CURSOR
          FOR SELECT NAME
              FROM   master..sysdatabases
        ELSE
          SET @DatabasesToIndex = CURSOR
          FOR SELECT NAME
              FROM   master..sysdatabases
              WHERE  NAME = @TargetDatabase

        OPEN DatabasesToIndex

        FETCH NEXT FROM DatabasesToIndex INTO @DbName

        WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
            BEGIN
                SET @TableSelect = 'INSERT INTO @TablesToReIndex SELECT CONCAT(TABLE_CATALOG, ''.'', TABLE_SCHEMA, ''.'', TABLE_NAME) AS TableName FROM '
                                   + @DbName
                                   + '.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_TYPE = ''base table''';

                EXEC sp_executesql
                    @TableSelect;

                FETCH NEXT FROM DatabasesToIndex INTO @DbName
            END

        CLOSE DatabasesToIndex

        DEALLOCATE DatabasesToIndex

        DECLARE @TableName VARCHAR(255)
        DECLARE TableCursor CURSOR FOR
            SELECT TableName
            FROM   @TablesToReIndex

        OPEN TableCursor

        FETCH NEXT FROM TableCursor INTO @TableName

        WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
            BEGIN
                DBCC DBREINDEX(@TableName, ' ', @FillFactor)

                FETCH NEXT FROM TableCursor INTO @TableName
            END

        CLOSE TableCursor

        DEALLOCATE TableCursor
    END