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RE: The True Test of a Good DBA
by Eileen Hess (posted: 2/1/2007 5:49:17 PM)
Here is what the books online says about these two lines of code you used:
dbcc showcontig ('t1')
dbcc showcontig ('t2')

"This feature (showcontig) will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. Avoid using this feature in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use this feature. Use sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats instead."

RE: The True Test of a Good DBA
by Stephen Wynkoop (posted: 2/1/2007 6:19:33 PM)
True, this is an older article of Bill's.