Everyone has posted thoughtful contributions to the discussion. Thanks.

It does depend on how the queries are consuming your indexes. If you have an exact duplicate clustered index and a non-clustered index and you have a query that needs...

It's not just a question of the debugger slowing down the server. You can generate all sorts of errors on the server during the debugging process. They can have impacts...

First up, don't use the Wizard. The only advantage the Wizard has over the regular GUI is the Next button. You don't need that. Further, the Wizard doesn't offer all...

Check out the traceflag 2371. If you're not hitting automatic statistics updates with the default settings, you may benefit from setting this traceflag.

You are posting in the 2014...

Connection timeouts are very hard to track. They're almost impossible to track within SQL Server because they're not connecting, therefore, SQL Server doesn't see anything. You just can't track what's...

It's a bool. It should simply turn off page locking. In fact, when it's turned off, you'll get an error when you try to reorganize the index. Check the

Everything Bill has said is 100% correct. I just want to reinforce it.

Proper normalization improves performance. You store smaller amounts of data. This means fewer reads and writes...

If you're going to do this, use sp_executesql and build out the query and WHERE clause using parameters. As was already mentioned, otherwise you are absolutely opening yourself to SQL...

So you 're getting page locks because the engine has determined that there will be too many rows to use row locking. Trying to improve performance by forcing the locking...

Another mechanism would be to capture logins using Extended Events. Also, you can capture calls against the database using Extended Events.

Reading back through this set of comments is interesting. It does seem to boil down to the belief, by those who have degrees in CS, that the only true path...