rowmodctr

why rowmodctr in sysindexes table shows negative values instead of zero afte
r
a index rebuild in sql 2000 ?
Thanks,
RangaRanga,
The value of [rowmodctr] is increased just for index ID 0 or 1. For the
rest of indexes and statistics, it shows a relative value that has to be
added to the [rowmodctr] of the index 0 or 1 to get the true number of
changed rows for this index.
Statistics Used by the Query Optimizer in Microsoft SQL Server 2000
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa902688(SQL.80).aspx
AMB
"Ranga" wrote:

> why rowmodctr in sysindexes table shows negative values instead of zero af
ter
> a index rebuild in sql 2000 ?
> Thanks,
> Ranga|||Thanks...
I have two tables each has several non clustered indexes...for one of them
I see negative values in the rowmodctr, for the other table i see zero for
rowmodctr...though it is not causing any problems, just curious to know wha
t
is behind this.
I did reindex first, and the value got set to zero, a nightly update
statistics job changed the zero value to a negative number ? Is this what
happenned ?
Ranga
"Alejandro Mesa" wrote:
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> Ranga,
> The value of [rowmodctr] is increased just for index ID 0 or 1. For t
he
> rest of indexes and statistics, it shows a relative value that has to be
> added to the [rowmodctr] of the index 0 or 1 to get the true number of
> changed rows for this index.
> Statistics Used by the Query Optimizer in Microsoft SQL Server 2000
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa902688(SQL.80).aspx
>
> AMB
> "Ranga" wrote:
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