Home Forums Article Discussions Article Discussions by Author Discuss Content Posted by Ranga Narasimhan Missing Indexes in SQL Server 2005 RE: Missing Indexes in SQL Server 2005

  • November 25, 2008 at 6:43 pm

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    Wayne West (10/22/2008)

    Thanks for the article, Ranga, very useful. I look forward to getting our ERP system into 2005 or 2008 as I know they're not doing a good job indexing, but I'm a little leery of altering or adding indexes without some solid backup proof.

    Oh... be careful... the worst part about an ERP system is that it enables folks who have no clue about how databases work or how to get performance out of the system, including index usage, to write 62 table joins with a built in cross join like the one I've recently seen. The old saying of "If you make something idiot proof, only idiots will use it" has a lot of truth to it when it comes to using the wonderful features of ERP's. 😉

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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    How to post code problems
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