Simple question that I believe I know the answer to, but I just want to get some confirmation here as well to be sure:
As part of "normal" server maintenance we want to regularly schedule physical file fragmentation to occur on our servers, including our SQL servers. I don't believe this will present an issue for any of our databases' indexes -- I believe index fragmentation can be caused by shrinking the files, not defragmenting them -- but I want to be sure I don't create any serious "self-inflicted wounds." Am I correct? Or can defragmenting files lead to index fragmentation?
Thanks for any assistance!
-- Mike