Thank you Sergey! this is what I was looking for. Your help is always very much appriciated.

Rollin

>See SQL Server 2005 and 2008 - Backup, Integrity Check and Index Optimization . I'm using 'Integrity Check and Index Optimization' part of it. Didn't have time to see if I want to use 'Backup' part as well.
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>>In SQL 2000 (and still in SQL 2005 - but not being continued) DBCC SHOWCONTIG has been used to capture index statistics. With a cursor, all indexes of all tables (of all DBs) could have their stats extracted with one procedure.
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>>In SQL 2005, sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats is the recommended method. This gives the information differently. Wtih all arguments set to NULL, all of the index information can be selected without the need for a cursor. It gives database_id and object_id, though, not the names.
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>>My question is this: What would be the best way to have a procedure that uses
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>> ALTER INDEX ALL ON ... REORGANIZE and
>> sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats
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>>to update all indexes (on all tables, and all DBs) that are more than 20% fragmented??
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>>Your help is greatly appreciated.