Good morning everyone,
We have a decent size database (630GB) running on SQL Server 2014 that has ran in simple recovery mode for years, with a nightly reindex/backup maintenance plan. A month or two ago, I changed the recovery mode to full and created a second maintenance plan that does a transaction log backup every 30 minutes, and set up a database mirror.
Recently I have been getting email alerts that the nightly job has failed. Upon closer inspection, it's failing on the reindex. I changed the plan to use reorganize instead of reindex, thinking that the lower overhead of reorganize would be a better choice for this particular situation, but it still fails. Since reorganize is an online op, the backups are taken at the same time, and they complete. However, the reorganize gets stuck on the index in one particular table, runs for 5...