> Not quite. Once a page has reached it's fill factor percentage full,
> no more inserts will happen on that page, only updates. Also, I
> think you have large/small backwards wrt fill factor. If you have a
> fill factor of, say, 40% then once a page has reached 40% full no
> more inserts will happen (unless some space is reclaimed by vacuum).
> So, smaller fill factors == bigger holes. The bigger the fill
> factor, the smaller the whole: if you have a fill factor of 90%,
> only 10% is reserved for updates of rows on that page.
So (just to reiterate), fill factor can be applied to both a table and/or an index(es). But the
"holes" built into the page of a table or index can only be filled by UPDATE Statements.
Thanks for the clarification!
Regards,
Richard Broesma Jr.
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