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The Online online index rebuild operation is an application that upgrades indexes in the background and converts Indexes them from a none compression to state into a page level compression type. This operation updates indexes on the Events table in the databases on each of the monitored instance databases to become a page compressed type. This index upgrade shows considerable performance advantage advantages and optimizes performance when viewing and managing event data.

The following 7 Indexes are included to in the Events table of an a monitored instance being audited:

• IX_Events_eventId
• IX_Events_eventCategory
• IX_Events_eventType
• IX_Events_databaseId
• IX_Events_appNameId
• IX_Events_hostId
• IX_Events_loginId

The operation is performed as an ONLINE operation (only for supported SQLServer SQL Server versions) keeping the database table(s) available for users. The application checks the SQL Server version and then checks if the index compression type is set to page or none. On the basis of based on the compression type, it performs the Index upgrade query which is set to be an ONLINE operation for any compression type to page compression type.   The process then creates the non existing 7 indexes mentioned above, after creation it performs the compression on operation then runs and converts the 7 indexes of the event databases (for each instance added for auditing) . For to be page compressed. For environments with large repositories, the index rebuilds can take a significant amount of time. If you need to defer the rebuild, the SQL Compliance Manager update process will proceed without rebuilding the indexes and you can choose to do so at a later. For new instances, it will create the page compressed type indexes is created by default.

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Running the Index rebuild operation manually

In a few Several SQL Servers versions editions (such as the STANDARD edition), do not support the index creation with the ONLINE property is not supported and therefore rebuild operation to be performed in an ONLINE state. Therefore the operation results in a failure message displayed to the user , instructing them to run the application manually without the ONLINE property.

Before updating the indexes, please ensure that the selected database has sufficient free space to accommodate these changes. For example, if the current size of your database is 1MB in size, the updated database may grow to 2 MB2MB. In this case, the update process would require 1MB of free space.

User can Users are able to run the utility manually with additional parameters in order to build rebuild the indexes without the ONLINE option as follows:

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The second parameter “ONLINE=OFF” is an optional parameter and is meant to be used only when the index update operation cannot be performed with the ONLINE option.