There are several different aspects of indexes that can be monitored via DMV’s. One the neatest things is just how much your indexes are used, how they are used or if they are used at all! I’ve put together this stored procedure to gather a ton of useful information on… Read more

Indexes, indexes, indexes my kingdom for an index! Well, something like that. Indexes are the single most important structure in our relation database world. So, it is understandable that I do everything I can to gather information, monitor their health and maintain them to the best of my ability. One… Read more

Adding In Others For Contrast

In our first part we introduced Pliant and the LS 300 drive. In part 2 we get down to the details. To give a better idea where you stand with the setup described last time I’m throwing in two other storage setups. A RAID… Read more

One of the most important aspects of keeping your system running well is updating and managing your statistics. Since the optimizer relies on statistics to determine the best execution plan it is imperative that you keep an eye on them and maintain them just like you would indexes. One of… Read more

In this installment we are looking at assembling a basic data dictionary from the column level meta data stored in SQL Server. This is a little different from the rest. You can still do quite a bit with the information provided but to leverage this to the fullest requires a… Read more