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An Un-indexed Foreign Key Gotcha
Indexing is important for improving performance, but do you know that a lack of indexes might actually cause things to stop working? Alok Dwivedi brings us a very interesting scenario where the lack of an index causes a problem with concurrency.
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Alok Dwivedi
2009/11/09
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Introduction to Indexes
Indexes are critical to good performance in SQL Server. However many people don't understand how indexes work and why they are important. MVP Gail Shaw provides us with an introductory article to explain the basics of indexing.
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Gail Shaw
2009/10/26
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Index Management
This article demonstrates an Index Management strategy to tackle day to day performance issues due to improper indexes.
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sql frenzy
2009/10/20
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SQL Server 2005 Index Best Practices
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.
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2009/10/09
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Keep Your SQL Server Indexes Fragmentation Free
Routine maintenance can keep index fragmentation to a minimum—with some help from an index-defragmenting script.
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2009/09/22
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Back to basics: Optimizing SQL Server indexes
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.
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2009/08/21
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Retaining historical index usage statistics for SQL Server - Part 3
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.
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2009/07/20
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Partitioned Table and Index Strategies Using SQL Server 2008
The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database software provides table partitioning to make such operations more manageable.
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2009/07/10
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Using Indexes to Reduce Blocking in Concurrent Transactions
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.
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Nilav Baran Ghosh
2009/07/07
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Retaining historical index usage statistics for SQL Server
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.
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2009/05/26
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SQL Server Optimization
This article describes different ways of improving the performance of SQL Server queries, with a focus on index optimization.
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2009/05/08
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Don’t Make Dumb Mistakes by Duplicating Indexes
Just today, I was reviewing the indexing of a database used by a third-party application. As part of my review, I ran a script against it that is used to identify duplicate indexes. The script I used was written Paul Nielsen, the author of the SQL Server...
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Brad McGehee
2009/04/20
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How to create indexes on computed columns in SQL Server
There are certain requirements for creating indexes on computed columns and this tip shows you want needs to be done.
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2009/03/18
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Reasons Why You May Not Want to Use a Heap
For a book project I am working on, I have started compiling a list of reasons why heaps aren't usually a good choice when designing a database. Now, I didn't say that heaps are always bad, but in most cases, I think they should be avoided so pleae read the list to see why.
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2009/03/10
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Which is Better: Heaps or Tables with Clustered Indexes?
I have always been of the personal opinion that all SQL Server tables have a clustered index. As part of the research I am doing on a new book on High Performance Index Maintenance , and on heaps specifically, I ran across this SQL Server Best Practices...
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Brad McGehee
2009/02/20
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Using DMVs to improve SQL index effectiveness
Dynamic management views measure the effectiveness of indexes and discover fragmented indexes that may slow down SQL Server.
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2009/02/18
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Moving Tables and Indexes to Filegroups En Masse
Longtime author and SQL Server expert David Poole brings us a method to
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David Poole
2009/01/21
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Disabling Indexes - SQL School Video
There are times that you do not want indexes to be updated and used. Brian Knight shows how you can accomplish this with a new SQL School video.
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Andy Warren
2009/01/13
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Finding a better candidate for your clustered indexes
When creating tables it is difficult to determine exactly how the data will be accessed. Therefore when clustered indexes are chosen they are often just the ID column that makes the row unique. This may be a good choice, but once the application has been used and data access statistics are available you may need to go back and make some adjustments to your tables to ensure your clustered indexes are providing a benefit and not a drain on your applications.
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2008/12/26
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Analyze and Fix Index Fragmentation in SQL Server 2008
This article describes how an index gets fragmented and the steps which a DBA can take to fix index fragmentation
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2008/12/11
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Introduction to Indexes
Indexes are critical to good performance in SQL Server. However many people don't understand how indexes work and why they are important. MVP Gail Shaw provides us with an introductory article to explain the basics of indexing.
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Gail Shaw
2009/10/26
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Using Indexes to Reduce Blocking in Concurrent Transactions
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.
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Nilav Baran Ghosh
2009/07/07
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Index Management
This article demonstrates an Index Management strategy to tackle day to day performance issues due to improper indexes.
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2009/10/20
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