Sometimes, you have to test out alternative indexing strategies, but the task of creating the candidate indexes would just take too long. Is there another way? Well, yes, why not use the same method the DTA (Database Tuning Advisor) uses, and take the tedium out of the job.
2013-01-22
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The "index create memory" option in sp_configure advance server settings, controls the maximum amount of memory initially allocated for creating indexes. This tip deals with common issues around this setting.
2012-12-28
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SQL Server Indexes need to be effective. It is wrong to have too few or too many. The ones you create must ensure that the workload reads the data quickly with a minimum of I/O. As well as a sound knowledge of the way that relational databases work, it helps to be familiar with the Dynamic Management Objects that are there to assist with your indexing strategy.
2012-10-23
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Stored proc for scripting out full CREATE INDEX statements from your table indexes with all filegroup, filter and WITH parameters.
2012-11-27 (first published: 2012-10-18)
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This script will provide a dynamic mechanism to decide between REBUILDING an index or simply REORGANIZING an index. Tested and approved for SQL Server 2005 & 2008 Standard or Enterprise or R2.
2012-11-26 (first published: 2012-10-18)
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This script will tell you how many indexes there are for a single table and also it specifically shows how many non clustered index, and also which tables have a heap index.
2012-11-23 (first published: 2012-10-17)
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2012-08-30
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2012-08-06
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Index Maintenance procedure with HTML Reporting capabilities. Please refer to attached script for detailed information.
2012-08-09 (first published: 2012-07-26)
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2012-07-05
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By Steve Jones
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We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers