Reports stats on what the query optimizer records in the DMVs as missing indexes and what it says the cost savings will be if they were present. Can limit by table / schema name patterns.  Read more...

Reports index stats, index size+rows, member seek + include columns as two comma separated output columns, and index usage stats for one or more tables and/or schemas.  Read more...

This article has a description of an index utilization tool that Ron Johnson uses to analyze the effectiveness and use of indexes in a system.  Read more...

A table that does not have a clustered index is referred to as a Heap. While a lot has been written about index fragmentation and how to defrag indexes, there is not much that talks about how to defrag a heap table.  Read more...

Creates a resultset that expresses the last time a successful CHECKDB was performed on every database in the instance. Does not work on SQL 2000.  Read more...

This article has a description of an index utilization tool that Ron Johnson uses to analyze the effectiveness and use of indexes in a system.  Read more...

Reports all running requests along with the request's identifying information (SPID, login etc), current resource consumption, query batch text, statement text, and XML query plan.  Read more...

A super-powered EXEC on steroids, the Power Tool every DBA wants for Christmas.  Read more...

Returns records with errors from the default trace ordered by most recent first  Read more...

Reports all running requests along with the request's identifying information (SPID, login etc), current resource consumption, query batch text, statement text, and XML query plan.  Read more...

Reports summaries, in 3 levels of detail, connections, running requests, open transactions + cursors, and blocking. Provides query text + plan for the piggiest running request of each group.  Read more...

Searches for tables who's names contain the search string. Gives Aggregate Size, Rows, Index, and Column information as well.  Read more...

Searches for columns with names containing @Colname that belong to tables with names containing @TableName or schemas with names containing @SchemaName. Gives size and rowcount for tables.  Read more...

Searches for foreign key constraints that don't have fully matching indexes. The best partial matching indexes are outputted with MatchCounts and column comparisons.  Read more...

Searches for tables who's names contain the search string. Gives Size and Rows information as well.  Read more...

Searches for actual and potential foreign key columns for a given primary key reference.  Read more...

Searches precompiled procedures for the provided search string, optionally limiting to names matching a 2nd search string.  Read more...

Searches for objects (including CLR) who's names contain the search string. outputs IDs, names, and types of the object and its parent.  Read more...

Lists Schema/Object of tables that are missing a Primary Key or Clustered Index, along with aggregate data for size, rows, indexes, and columns.  Read more...

1100 largest indexes by total buffer cache usage; 100 largest tables by total reserved pages; Largest tables in each database with running total of space usage and growth since last snapshot  Read more...