Resumable Online Index Rebuild in SQL Server
Summary: Resumable Online Index Rebuild splits work into incremental units with persisted state for pause/resume in SQL Server. Constant log-space progress on large indexes; first commercial DBMS with pause/resume, enabling extensions to other schema ops. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Panagiotis Antonopoulos (Microsoft)
- 2. Hanuma Kodavalla (Microsoft)
- 3. Alex Tran (Microsoft)
- 4. Nitish Upreti (Microsoft)
- 5. Chaitali Shah (Microsoft)
- 6. Mirek Sztajno (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@article{antonopoulos_vldb17,
title = {{Resumable Online Index Rebuild in SQL Server}},
author = {Antonopoulos, Panagiotis and Kodavalla, Hanuma and Tran, Alex and Upreti, Nitish and Shah, Chaitali and Sztajno, Mirek},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '17},
volume = {10},
number = {12},
pages = {1742--1753},
doi = {10.14778/3137765.3137779},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3137765.3137779},
year = {2017}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,200 | Intermittent Query Processing | 2019 | VLDB | 5.6756294e-05 |
| 8,090 | Amber: A Debuggable Dataflow System Based on the Actor Model | 2020 | VLDB | 5.4890583e-05 |
| 10,994 | MD-MVCC: Multi-version Concurrency Control for Schema Changes in Azure SQL Database | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels | 1995 | SIGMOD | 0.00058720861 |
| 924 | Algorithms for Creating Indexes for Very Large Tables Without Quiescing Updates | 1992 | SIGMOD | 0.00013185068 |
| 940 | Enhancements to SQL Server Column Stores | 2013 | SIGMOD | 0.00013081205 |
| 1,508 | Sorting And Indexing With Partitioned B-Trees | 2003 | CIDR | 0.00010540965 |
| 9,103 | Online Index Rebuild | 2000 | SIGMOD | 5.3245321e-05 |
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