UPDATE 2009-06-24

I have blogged about both of them before (here and here), but I can never say enough about how helpful their index maintenance scripts can be.  Both Ola Hallengren and Michelle Ufford (@sqlfool) have been extremely dedicated to building very useful maintenance scripts for you, me, and all the DBAs around you – even (or maybe especially) the involuntary ones.  I have used both, and because they offer so much more flexibility over the canned stuff you get in the built-in maintenance plans, I highly recommend trying them out.

Ola's scripts were updated earlier this month, and I am only getting to blogging about it now (sorry Ola!).  Some of the enhancements in this update:

• rebuild and reorganize indexes at the partition level
• exclude indexes in read-only filegroups
• option to print commands instead of executing them
• support for all builds of SQL Server 2005 and 2008 (previously, only 2005 SP2+ was supported)
• backup solution now supports LiteSpeed in addition to native backups

You can read about and download Ola's solution here.

Michelle Ufford has released a new version of her solution as well.  The enhancements include:

• bug fix surrounding LOB logic
• added @scanMode and @rebuildStats options
• added support for defragging model and msdb
• helpful additions to the log table (for monitoring)
• exclusion list (for scheduling)

You can download Michelle's solution here.

I just want to echo a huge THANK YOU to both of these individuals for donating their time, energy and knowledge into developing and maintaining these scripts for the community at large.