Indexes - Fill Factor option...

Hi,
Lets suppose a table with 300.000+ rows. This table is heavily Updated,
SELECTED or DELETED. Let's say... there are 400/500 new rows per day and,
most of cases, a row is between 7 and 10 times updated, in different columns.
I have created 5 indexes in this table, corresponding to columns that I
frequently use in SELECTs or UPDATEs actions.
BOL tells me that a 100(0)% Fill Factor should not be used on heavily
updated table.
In this particular case, what Fill Factor percentage can be used in each
index?
Thanks in advance...
Marco.
It depends on the distribution of the data for each index. If, for an index, you always insert rows
at the end (increasing higher values), you won't get fragmentation. I recommend that you try a
fillfactor value, and monitor the fragmentation based on that, using DBCC SHOWCONTIG. And, read
this:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro.../ss2kidbp.mspx
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
"Marco Pais" <MarcoPais@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A5E66D4F-3978-4D0A-835B-BAAC1871A34A@.microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> Lets suppose a table with 300.000+ rows. This table is heavily Updated,
> SELECTED or DELETED. Let's say... there are 400/500 new rows per day and,
> most of cases, a row is between 7 and 10 times updated, in different columns.
> I have created 5 indexes in this table, corresponding to columns that I
> frequently use in SELECTs or UPDATEs actions.
> BOL tells me that a 100(0)% Fill Factor should not be used on heavily
> updated table.
> In this particular case, what Fill Factor percentage can be used in each
> index?
> Thanks in advance...
> Marco.