Script to aid in Indexing Strategy

By Sean Gorman, 2007/03/09

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When AUTOSTATS is used in a database, we can sometimes use these automatically generated statistics to find columns where SQL Server has built statistics on non-indexed columns that may benefit from an index.

This script finds these columns and displays the selectivity of them. This script can be useful in troubleshooting poorly performing databases by assisting with index selection. It should not be used to make blanket indexing decisions.

By Sean Gorman, 2007/03/09

Total article views: 1164 | Views in the last 30 days: 66

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