Randy,

Now that you confirm that improvements were made to (re)index, can we get more details so that we can exploit to the fullest?

Thanks in advance,

jim N

>Evan,
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>Good catch. Along with some of the multi-threading optimizations and improvements, we (Calvin) were also able to make some additional optimizations in the indexing routines.
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>Randy [MSFT]
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>>I have experienced a drastic decrease in the time it takes to index/pack tables with SP3. I have a 1 million record table that took almost 30 minutes to index on 7 expressions. This now takes under 10 minutes. Has anyone else observed this. Wow!