>>>>Has any solid research been done in reference to performance after re-indexing before verses after defragmentation of the drive?
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>>>In addition to degragmentation, you should also consider re-ordering the table to its "natural" order. For example, if you have a table that's ordered by one particular field, re-building that table so that the records are in that order can yield a reduction of index size of up to 20%.
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>>How would this affect the case - the usual case, I believe - where there are several indices, on differente fields or expressions?
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>I haven't yet tested to see. However, I would think that at least some reduction in size would occur simply because the main index would take up less size.
Yes, that makes sense.
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