SQL defrag manager
Technical Features
Powerful, automated, defragmentation management
- Flexible, customisable control of
defragmentation – defrag processes can be
triggered by fragmentation percentage or scan density,
and prioritized based on fragmentation level, scan
density, or index size. Additionally, defrag operations
can be limited to the “top x” worst indexes, or by a
“hard stop” time.
- Proactive, Intelligent System Resource Awareness
- SQL defrag manager now provides the DBA with the
ability to check the utilization of key system
indicators prior to executing the defragmentation. This
gives the DBA an added benefit of making sure that the
policy is able to run as scheduled and avoid any
potential system problems or application bottlenecks.
- Policy-based management -
Defragmentation policies can be applied at the server,
database or index level to apply the same
defragmentation management policy to multiple objects
all at once. Changing the policy changes the
defragmentation approach across all objects
simultaneously.
- Automatic, Semi-Automatic or Ad-hoc
– provides DBAs the option to run in ”hands free ” mode,
approve suggested defragmentation actions, or define
exactly how to perform defragmentation automatically.
- Automatically Finds “Worst” Fragmentation
Areas – allows you to simply and easily view
from the server level down detailed metrics on
individual indexes, providing simple and automated
methods for detecting, prioritizing and fixing your
“worst” fragmentation problems.
- Detailed Metrics – includes
information such as fragmentation percentage, index and
table size, free bytes, page density, rate of
fragmentation increase, defragmentation methods and
post-run results, and time to execute.
- Lightweight Collection –
fragmentation details are intelligently collected based
on customizable automation policies, keeping overhead on
your monitored servers low.
- Supports Multiple Levels of Operations – takes actions at the server level or at a more fine grained level for tables and all attached indexes, specific indexes, or indexed views. Additionally, remediation actions can be customized by index size.
Enterprise Management Features
- Central Enterprise Management Console
– enables rapid configuration as well as real-time
monitoring of activity. This makes it easy to manage and
track fragmentation over a large number of servers.
- Dynamic index discovery - As
databases, tables and indexes are created or deleted
over time, SQL defrag manager automatically adds new
objects and drops deleted objects on a daily basis.
- Agent-less Architecture – includes
a Management Console, Centralized Collection
Service/Engine and Repository, and an Agent-less
Management Service.
- Reporting – built-in reports geared
to technical or managerial audiences show worst
fragmented servers, databases, or tables/indexes,
reclaimed resources, and other key fragmentation related
information.
- Easy Installation and Use –
installs quickly and supports a mixed environment of
Windows integrated security and SQL Server native
security. A typical installation and configuration will
take less than 30 minutes.

