> 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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