2007-04-30 (first published: 2007-04-03)
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Indexing
SQL Server 2005: Script all Primary Keys
Since it is not possible to script only the primary keys of all tables with the SQL Server 2005 Management Studio, here a small script to get the create scripts for all existing primary keys of the current database.
2007-03-28 (first published: 2007-03-09)
4,311 reads
Script to aid in Indexing Strategy
When AUTOSTATS is used in a database, we can sometimes use these automatically generated statistics to find columns where SQL Server has built statistics on non-indexed columns that may benefit from an index. This script finds these columns and displays the selectivity of them. This script can be useful in troubleshooting poorly performing databases by […]
2007-04-09 (first published: 2007-02-20)
1,761 reads
Indexes and Fragmentation in SQL Server 2000 Part 2
Most DBAs are constantly looking for ways to tune their servers to run better. Joe Doherty brings us the second part of his series on indexes with an in depth look at how the indexes are stored in your database.
2007-12-13 (first published: 2006-12-20)
14,376 reads
Remove index fragmentation
This script will drop and recreated all indexes in a database within a transaction. The script will also add standard nameing conventions to the index names. Any duplicated indexes are removed.
2007-07-20 (first published: 2006-10-24)
1,392 reads
Update statistics for all tables in any DB
Most of the time even after executing dbcc dbreindex script on database you won't see much improvement in application/DB performance. Thats because dbreindex creates statistics for all tables but it executes sp_updatestats which is like sample statistics. To get the maximum performance we had to execute Update statistics with fullscan on table. This simple will […]
2006-12-22 (first published: 2006-10-23)
21,347 reads
Updating all the indexes/statistics of a database
The below command will rebuild all indexes on a database.We need to run the below command in the context of each database that is of interest.
2007-02-21 (first published: 2006-10-23)
1,244 reads
Finding missing indexes in sql server 2005
the following scripts helps in finding top 5 missing indexes using the new feature of DMV available in SQl Server 2005
2007-07-19 (first published: 2006-10-23)
5,389 reads
Quick Fix secondary Indexes ( SQL 2000 )
In real world production tuning sometimes a "quick fix" is required. This script will generate index create scripts for any column ending ID which doesn't have an index. It's dirty and its quick but you might just be amazed by the results when run against your database!
2007-07-11 (first published: 2006-10-10)
510 reads
Get All Foreign Key names and Tables referenced
This script lists all the foreign keys ,the referenced and the referencing tables , along with the column information.
2007-07-09 (first published: 2006-10-04)
327 reads
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Transaction Log Truncation
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