KB4480651 - Improvement: Merge operation will consider the number of deleted rows in the rowgroup in SQL Server 2016 and 2017

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Improvement

Assume that you use SQL Server 2016 or 2017. You will notice that ALTER INDEX REORGANIZE skips over the rowgroup with DICTIONARY_SIZE, regardless of how many deleted rows exist in the rowgroup. When you do a merge operation, this improvement will increase the index efficiency by using a threshold that is the number of deleted rows in the rowgroup.

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This improvement is included in the following cumulative updates for SQL Server:

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