UPDATE 5/21/2013: Just heard from the MVP community that some folks are referencing this article to improve performance: http://ola.hallengren.com/sql-server-index-and-statistics-maintenance.html From within Microsoft SQL Management Studio, run the query below to check fragmentation: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 SELECT a.index_id, name, avg_fragmentation_in_percent FROM   sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats (NULL,NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL) AS a JOIN […]