Hello. Today I had a 3rd party software vendor ask me to reboot a production SQL Server that was busy doing an offline rebuild of a clustered index. The index was very large (approx 80GB - yes it is a SharePoint index) and had been rebuilding for more than 24 hours. The database was in full recovery mode and database index backups were being done every 30 minutes. I declined to do this as I wasn't sure if interrupting an index build in this way would result in database corruption. I am interested in knowing.1. If people think that this was likely to have caused corruption.2. If the offline index would have come back on line any sooner by rebooting the server.
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