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]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Indexing/68439/</guid><pubDate>2009/10/26</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Indexing/68439/</link></item><item><title>Index Management</title><description><![CDATA[This article demonstrates an Index Management strategy to tackle day to day performance issues due to improper indexes.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Indexing/68079/</guid><pubDate>2009/10/20</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Indexing/68079/</link></item><item><title>SQL Server 2005 Index Best Practices</title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68422/</guid><pubDate>2009/10/09</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68422/</link></item><item><title>Keep Your SQL Server Indexes Fragmentation Free</title><description><![CDATA[Routine maintenance can keep index fragmentation to a minimum—with some help from an index-defragmenting script.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68170/</guid><pubDate>2009/09/22</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/68170/</link></item><item><title>Indexes</title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/questions/Performance+Tuning/66196/</guid><pubDate>2009/09/07</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/questions/Performance+Tuning/66196/</link></item><item><title>Defragmenting and rebuilding indexes</title><description><![CDATA[Following code snippet will selectively rebuild indexes that have been thrashed after a big indert]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Rebuilding+indexes/67791/</guid><pubDate>2009/08/26</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Rebuilding+indexes/67791/</link></item><item><title>Back to basics: Optimizing SQL Server indexes</title><description><![CDATA[When created and maintained correctly, indexes help SQL Server retrieve data quickly. See how to ensure your SQL Server environment is running up to speed.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/67878/</guid><pubDate>2009/08/21</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/67878/</link></item><item><title>Unique constraints</title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/questions/Indexing/66611/</guid><pubDate>2009/07/29</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/questions/Indexing/66611/</link></item><item><title>Retaining historical index usage statistics for SQL Server - Part 3</title><description><![CDATA[In this, the third of the four part series on persisting the rowset results from the indexing Dynamic Management Views cached in temporary internal SQL Server structures we will explore what is required to store the missing index-related metadata.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/67506/</guid><pubDate>2009/07/20</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/67506/</link></item><item><title>Partitioned Table and Index Strategies Using SQL Server 2008</title><description><![CDATA[The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database software provides table partitioning to make such operations more manageable.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/66760/</guid><pubDate>2009/07/10</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/66760/</link></item><item><title>Using Indexes to Reduce Blocking in Concurrent Transactions</title><description><![CDATA[New author Nilav Ghosh brings us a performance tuning article to help your queries run better. This article examines how indexes can help reduce blocking.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/67134/</guid><pubDate>2009/07/07</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/67134/</link></item><item><title>view, index and schemabinding!</title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/questions/T-SQL/66448/</guid><pubDate>2009/06/29</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/questions/T-SQL/66448/</link></item><item><title>Disabling Indexes</title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/questions/Indexing/66449/</guid><pubDate>2009/06/23</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/questions/Indexing/66449/</link></item><item><title>The Ultimate Dupe Finder &amp; Performance Test Parameter Set Researcher</title><description><![CDATA[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!]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Administration/66847/</guid><pubDate>2009/05/29</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Administration/66847/</link></item><item><title>Retaining historical index usage statistics for SQL Server</title><description><![CDATA[In this three-part series I'll look at what you can do to persist this data so you don't find yourself waiting for usage stats to compile over a reasonable period of time just so you can harness the power of the indexing DMOs in your performance tuning process. ]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/66973/</guid><pubDate>2009/05/26</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/66973/</link></item><item><title>Reindex SQL Tables</title><description><![CDATA[This stored procedure will reindex indexes based on the fragmentation lever.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Indexing/66529/</guid><pubDate>2009/05/14</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Indexing/66529/</link></item><item><title>SQL Server Optimization</title><description><![CDATA[This article describes different ways of improving the performance of SQL Server queries, with a focus on index optimization.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/66586/</guid><pubDate>2009/05/08</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/66586/</link></item><item><title>Don’t Make Dumb Mistakes by Duplicating Indexes</title><description><![CDATA[Just today, I was reviewing the indexing of a database used by a third-party application. 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