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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As each year goes by the uptime requirement for our databases gets larger and larger, meaning the downtime that we have to do maintenance on our databases is getting smaller and smaller. This tip will look at a feature that was introduced in SQL Server 2005 that allows us to leave our indexes online and accessible while they are being rebuilt.
2012-02-08
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The most common T-SQL command in use has to be the SELECT statement, it is the bedrock of any SQL Professional's day. Sometimes it's used to snatch some data from a table or two while some quick investigation is done, other times it is at the heart of a stored procedure or view that will inform business decisions for coming months or even years.
2012-01-30
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I add this parameter to SQL Server 2025 in the Configuration Manager:
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