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I am currently experiencing this job getting stuck in my nightly maintenance solution -

ALTER INDEX [PK_ThirdPartySettleCalled] ON [evo_archive].[dbo].[ThirdPartySettleCalled]
 REORGANIZE WITH (LOB_COMPACTION = ON)

a full reindex of the table works.

but I'm using Ola Hallengren's awesome solution as I do on a number of sites that need maintenance solutions. http://ola.hallengren.com/Documentation.html and the job gets stuck in the middle of the night.

I've tested it as a single statement from within ssms with the same result, without an error I'm a little short of ideas.

Anyone experienced this issue before ?

No blocking,

the table is circa 300 million rows,

basically I say 'stuck' because no other processes are running in SQL server, and its been reorganising for hours with no error.

It is in the same state with 25% fragmentation or virutually 0% (tested after a full rebuild of the index)

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    What does "getting stuck" mean exactly? Did you investigate what the SPID is waiting on by looking at the wait type in sys.dm_exec_requests, checking for blocking, etc.? How big is the table? What is the % of fragmentation before you start the command and after you cancel because it's "stuck"? Did you observe any I/O-related entries in the system event log or SQL Server's log?
    – Aaron Bertrand
    Aug 23, 2011 at 18:25
  • @Aaron Bertrand. sorry, did't add all the things i've looked at and was still frustrated!. Within sql server - No blocking, the table is circa 300 million rows, basically I say 'stuck' because no other processes are running in SQL server, and its been reorganising for hours with no error. It is in the same state with 25% fragmentation or virutually 0% (tested after a full rebuild of the index)
    – DamagedGoods
    Aug 24, 2011 at 8:04

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The problem was we had a rogue cron job (unix job) related to our web servers that was using an incorrect login,

eventually it took up all 8 CPU’s so the reindex job was simply waiting for some CPU to become available before it could continue (this is why the job failed to timeout)

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