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Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 12:53 PM
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HI Folks

I came across a document about adding indexes to MSDB regarding backup tracking tables
Has anyone addedd indexes like these and a better question is, should I ?

the document is at:
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/geoffh/archive/2008/01/21/MSDB-Performance-Tuning.aspx

titled "MSDB Performance Tuning"

Any feedback is appreciated

Thanks
Jim
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Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 1:17 PM
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Yes, I've added many of the same indexes to solve the same problem with deleting backup history data from msdb. Without the indexes, it took forever. With them, it ran significantly faster. I never had any issues because of the indexes being added.
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Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 1:31 PM
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Thanks George

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