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sivark1

Posted Wednesday, August 12, 2009 10:04 PM

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hi experts i have a database exixting 300 tables

now i need to create indexes for the tables to increase performence

pls suggest some good solutions

thanks in advance

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Elliott W

Posted Wednesday, August 12, 2009 10:55 PM

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Run a trace for an hour or so during the busiest time of the day and feed the traced data to the index tuning wizard and see what it recommends. Other than that do all tables have primary keys? Clustered indexes?

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GilaMonster

Posted Thursday, August 13, 2009 2:06 AM

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http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/finding-the-causes-of-poor-performance-in-sql-server,-part-1/
http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/finding-the-causes-of-poor-performance-in-sql-server,-part-2/

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sivark1

Posted Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:36 AM

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thanks for replying gail

but how can i find which table require indexes and
how to check wether indexes present in the table
for performence tuning

pls reply

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Posted Thursday, August 13, 2009 5:01 AM

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Did you read those articles?

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