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QUESTION POSED ON: 24 January 2006
Is it necessary to update statistics after indexes are rebuilt?

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No. When indexes are rebuilt (using DBCC DBREINDEX or the newer ALTER INDEX REBUILD syntax) statistics are automatically updated. However, this is not the case when reorganizing indexes (using DBCC INDEXDEFRAG or ALTER INDEX REORGANIZE). If you are doing an index reorganization rather than an index rebuild, you might find it useful to update the statistics after the process completes.


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