At my new job we have a SQL 2012 Always On Cluster. I'm looking at wanted to re-index some of the databases and want to change the recovery state to simple when re-indexing to limit log growth. Don't believe I can change recovery mode with Always on. Could do a rebuild online? Does anyone have best practice experiences they could share?
Appreciate insight
I would not suggest to change the recovery model for index rebuild (or re-org). For best practice, we should always keep enough log space to cater general DB maintenance, that's includes re-index. My old rules was to keep at least 1.5x of the largest table size as log size, then monitor it for a while to obtain it effective size. For most of the OLTP workload, the log file should not growth that much, unless you always have bulk insert and huge deletes.
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