Database maintenance plan - recommendation

Hi
I have an existing mm plan in one of the server which contain
1.Check integrity
2.Shrink
3. Reorganize
4.Rebuild
5.Update stats
Does both Reorganize and Rebuild required in the same mm plan ? Only Rebuild will optimize the indexes ?
Currently re-org is taking 2 hrs to complete where Rebuils only 20 min .
Thanks

2 Shrink -
The second option Shrink is not recommened in a maintenance plan. Shrinking introduces fragmentation and causes autogrowth unnecessarily. Shrinking in not a good for either data file or log files. Shrinking occassionally to free up space which got increased
exponentially due to some specific operation is fine. But shrink in a Maintenance plan is a very very bad idea. Check these blogs
http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/08/stop-shrinking-your-database-files-seriously-now/
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/aaron_bertrand/archive/2009/07/27/oh-the-horror-please-stop-telling-people-they-should-shrink-their-log-files.aspx
3 Reorganize/4 Rebuild
Both are not required. Either one is enough. A better approach is to find the fragmentation and then decide either to reorganize or rebuild. You dont have to do this for all indexes. You only need to reorg/rebuild if the fragmentation is higher. General
rule of thumb
Fragmentation between 10 % - 30 % - Reorganize
Fragmentation above 30 % - Rebuild
Also you only need to do this if the page count is above 1000.
I would recommend you to take a look at Ola Hallegrans maintenance solution rather than using a Maintenance Plan
https://ola.hallengren.com/sql-server-index-and-statistics-maintenance.html
https://ola.hallengren.com/sql-server-integrity-check.html
Regards, Ashwin Menon My Blog - http:\\sqllearnings.com

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