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...

Index Maintenance procedure with HTML Reporting capabilities. Please refer to attached script for detailed information.  Read more...

Identifies indexes with average logical fragmentation >= 30% using the DM available in MSSQL 2005. Please refer to script for more information.  Read more...

Index maintenance procedure using rebuild or reorganized based on fragementation level.  Read more...

This stored procedure is capable of performing defragmentation indices with avg_fragmentation_in_percent greater than the threshold passed.  Read more...

This script will reindex (online) any index eligible to be reindexed online. Accepts a day of week parameter for full offline reindexing.   Read more...

Determining which columns to index in a table used to be a very time consuming process that was as much art as science. New author Ranga Narasimhan brings us an article that shows how SQL Server 2005 makes this much easier.  Read more...

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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...

In continuing with our series of tips on Best Practices for SQL Server I'm turning my sights on Maintenance. Specifically in this tip we will be discussing Index maintenance: when, if, why, and how are questions that will be addressed.  Read more...

Query to save all index metadata  Read more...

Finds the largest dupe-sets of one or more columns of a single table or derived table. Great for finding hoggy parameter combinations for perf-testing queries within stored procedures!  Read more...

Reports index length stats for indexes who's lengths exceeding parametrized thresholds (defaults to 0 - get all) for total length and seek length, optionally filtering schemas and tables.  Read more...

This script will reindex (online) any index eligible to be reindexed online. Accepts a day of week parameter for full offline reindexing.   Read more...

Gets single-column and cumulative-column selectivity stats and @Top largest dupe sets for each cumulative column stepping for a set of one or more columns for a table.  Read more...

Searches database-wide for multiple indexes in the same table which has the same column as the first seek key. Optionally limits to LIKE wildcard patterns of table and schema names.  Read more...

This procedure disables or rebuilds indexes for a given tablename  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...

Lists details for all indexes on one or more tables / schemas, including row count and size. This version outputs the member seek + include columns as two comma separated output columns.  Read more...