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An Un-indexed Foreign Key Gotcha
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dwivedialok
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Posted Saturday, November 07, 2009 12:14 PM
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Posted Monday, November 09, 2009 12:57 AM
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Good Job !
Nice article, well documented, good refs.
As documented, the general attitude for FK-indexes sould be :
always implement FK-indexes
, unless one can prove a particular index hurts,
and then only remove/disable that index
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Great catch!
Paul Nielsen posted a script back in 2007 to auto-generate indexes for foreign keys:
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/paul_nielsen/archive/2007/02/08/codegen-to-create-indexes-for-fks.aspx
http://www.sqlserverbible.com/scripts.htm
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Great job. I hadn't heard of this when I read the article, but it makes great sense.
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Steve Jones - Editor (11/9/2009)
Great job. I hadn't heard of this when I read the article, but it makes great sense.
Yepper. I have had several clients that have benefited from indexing FKs and reducing deadlocks and/or increasing concurrency. Indexes aren't just about performance! :)
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Nice article, very elaborative.
I want to stress :
by improving performance, query will run faster and reduce required lock time, hence reducing blocking and deadlock posiibilities.
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Nicely written Article, Alok.
Its always a good to read any article which had combination of enough code and to-the-point explanation in it.
SQL DBA.
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sqlpro
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am not sure adding indexes on FKs. i read somewhere if your child table contains lot of unique records then there is no point of creating index as index size is same as table size in that case seeks wont be any faster than scans , am i wrong ? thanks for the advise
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sqlpro (11/9/2009)
am not sure adding indexes on FKs. i read somewhere if your child table contains lot of unique records then there is no point of creating index as index size is same as table size in that case seeks wont be any faster than scans , am i wrong ? thanks for the advise
Yes, you are wrong. Take it to the extreme: you have a billion row child table where every single parentid value is unique. Parentid is not indexed. You need to get the ONE child row for parentid 111222333. You have no choice but to do a table scan to check every single parentid value for equality to 111222333. That cannot be efficient. Index parentid and you will probably get somewhere between 8 and 10 total page reads (btree depth) depending on the width of the child PK and parentid. The table scan without the index could well be many tens or even hundreds of thousands of pages.
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thanks for the reply. probably i misunderstood but following is the link i got my understanding from.its here http://www.informit.com/library/content.aspx?b=STY_Sql_Server_7&seqNum=145
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