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With this feature, you can resume a paused index rebuild operation from where the rebuild operation was paused rather than having to restart the operation at the beginning. In addition, this feature rebuilds indexes using only a small amount of log space. You can use the new feature in the following scenarios:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Resume an index rebuild operation after an index rebuild failure, such as after a database failover or after running out of disk space. There is no need to restart the operation from the beginning. This can save a significant amount of time when rebuilding indexes for large tables.<\/li>\n<li>Pause an ongoing index rebuild operation and resume it later. For example, you may need to temporarily free up system resources to execute a high priority task or you may have a single maintenance window that is too short to complete the operation for a large index. Instead of aborting the index rebuild process, you can pause the index rebuild operation and resume it later without losing prior progress.<\/li>\n<li>Rebuild large indexes without using a lot of log space and have a long-running transaction that blocks other maintenance activities. This helps log truncation and avoid out-of-log errors that are possible for long-running index rebuild operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Read the articles: <\/b>The following articles provide detailed and updated information about this feature<b>:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/ms190981(SQL.130).aspx\">Guidelines for Online Index Operations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/ms188388(SQL.130).aspx\">ALTER INDEX (Transact-SQL)<\/a><b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Public preview information:<\/b> For public preview communication on this topic, please contact the <a>ResumableIDXPreview@microsoft.com<\/a> alias.<\/p>\n<p><b>To try SQL Server 2017: <\/b>Get started with the preview of SQL Server 2017 on macOS, Docker, Windows, and Linux.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql\/linux\/sql-server-linux-setup-red-hat\">Install on Red Hat Enterprise Linux<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql\/linux\/sql-server-linux-setup-ubuntu\">Install on Ubuntu Linux<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql\/linux\/sql-server-linux-setup-suse-linux-enterprise-server\">Install on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql\/linux\/\">Pull and run a Linux Docker container <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/evalcenter\/evaluate-sql-server-2017-ctp\">Download the preview for Windows<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that Resumable Online Index Rebuild is now available for public preview in the SQL Server vNext 2017 CTP 2.0 release. 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