This script will provide a list of indexes that are not used in a database. Indexes are overhead and any indexes not being used but are being updated cause additional load on a database. This looks at the following items: User seeks, scans and lookups. If all three of these are zero and the User […]
2020-04-21 (first published: 2020-04-13)
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This script on missing indexes that SQL had found. SQL will track queries and provide suggestions on indexes it feels will provide improvements. You should not take this information and create all the indexes. Performance tuning can be an art and takes practice. This information should be reviewed and as a DBA implemented a little […]
2020-04-20 (first published: 2020-04-13)
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2019-08-20 (first published: 2019-07-26)
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