• I would review the below from the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team. The article addresses the issues below:

    (1) How can I find out whether my indexes are useful? How are they used?

    (2) Do I have any tables or indexes that are not used (or rarely)

    (3) What is the cost of index maintenance vs. its benefit?

    (4) Do I have hot spots & index contention?

    (5) Could I benefit from more (or less) indexes?

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlcat/archive/2006/02/13/531339.aspx