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Introduction to Indexes: Part 3 – The nonclustered index

Part 3 of a great series on the basics of indexes. This time MVP Gail Shaw examines the non-clustered index. Learn the structure, definition, and how to examine the use of these indexes in your queries.  Read more...
By Gail Shaw 2009/11/18 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Indexing
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 8,499 reads

Introduction to Indexes: Part 2 – The clustered index

In the second part of her series on indexing, MVP Gail Shaw examines clustered indexes. Learn what this index is, how it differs from a heap, and how it can help your queries.  Read more...
By Gail Shaw 2009/11/11 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Indexing
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 13,252 reads

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.  Read more...
By Alok Dwivedi 2009/11/09 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: T-SQL
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 8,808 reads

Introduction to Indexes

Indexes are critical to good performance. However many people don't understand how indexes well. MVP Gail Shaw provides us with an introductory article on the basics of indexing.  Read more...
By Gail Shaw 2009/10/26 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Indexing
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 21,913 reads

Index Management

This article demonstrates an Index Management strategy to tackle day to day performance issues due to improper indexes.  Read more...
By sql frenzy 2009/10/20 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Indexing
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 9,541 reads

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.  Read more...
By Additional Articles 2009/10/09 | Source: MSSQLTips.com | Category: SQL Server 2005
Rating: (not yet rated)  Rate this |  Briefcase | 5,770 reads

Keep Your SQL Server Indexes Fragmentation Free

Routine maintenance can keep index fragmentation to a minimum—with some help from an index-defragmenting script.  Read more...
By Additional Articles 2009/09/22 | Source: DevX | Category: Indexing
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Indexes

By VM-723206 2009/09/07 | Category: Performance Tuning
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Defragmenting and rebuilding indexes

Following code snippet will selectively rebuild indexes that have been thrashed after a big indert  Read more...
By Cool 2009/08/26 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Rebuilding indexes
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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.  Read more...
By Additional Articles 2009/08/21 | Source: SearchSQLServer | Category: Indexing
Rating:  Rate this |  Briefcase | 6,119 reads

Unique constraints

By ARUN SAS 2009/07/29 | Category: Indexing
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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.  Read more...
By Additional Articles 2009/07/20 | Source: MSSQLTips.com | Category: Indexing
Rating:  Rate this |  Briefcase | 1,182 reads

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.  Read more...
By Additional Articles 2009/07/10 | Source: TechNet | Category: Partitioned Tables
Rating:  Rate this |  Briefcase | 2,179 reads

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.  Read more...
By Nilav Baran Ghosh 2009/07/07 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Performance Tuning
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 11,818 reads

view, index and schemabinding!

By VM-723206 2009/06/29 | Category: T-SQL
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Disabling Indexes

By VM-723206 2009/06/23 | Category: Indexing
Rating: (not yet rated) |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 3,589 reads

The Ultimate Dupe Finder & Performance Test Parameter Set Researcher

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...
By Jesse Roberge 2009/05/29 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Administration
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 608 reads

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.   Read more...
By Additional Articles 2009/05/26 | Source: MSSQLTips.com | Category: statistics
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Reindex SQL Tables

This stored procedure will reindex indexes based on the fragmentation lever.  Read more...
By Balbir Singh 2009/05/14 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Indexing
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 1,192 reads

SQL Server Optimization

This article describes different ways of improving the performance of SQL Server queries, with a focus on index optimization.  Read more...
By Additional Articles 2009/05/08 | Source: TechNet | Category: Performance Tuning
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Introduction to Indexes

Indexes are critical to good performance. However many people don't understand how indexes well. MVP Gail Shaw provides us with an introductory article on the basics of indexing.  Read more...
By Gail Shaw 2009/10/26 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Indexing
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 21,913 reads

Introduction to Indexes: Part 2 – The clustered index

In the second part of her series on indexing, MVP Gail Shaw examines clustered indexes. Learn what this index is, how it differs from a heap, and how it can help your queries.  Read more...
By Gail Shaw 2009/11/11 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Indexing
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 13,252 reads

Introduction to Indexes: Part 3 – The nonclustered index

Part 3 of a great series on the basics of indexes. This time MVP Gail Shaw examines the non-clustered index. Learn the structure, definition, and how to examine the use of these indexes in your queries.  Read more...
By Gail Shaw 2009/11/18 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: Indexing
Rating: |  Discuss |  Briefcase | 8,499 reads