Tag: Indexes

  • DBA Scripts: Maintenance and Automation

    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks. Is the Automation Healthy, and Is It Actually Doing the Job A SQL Agent job that silently stopped running is one of the quietest failure modes in SQL Server, nothing errors, nothing alerts, the work it used to do just stops happening until…

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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Generate Index Maintenance Jobs

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Maintenance & Automation › Maintenance Job Framework A Readable Generator for Index Rebuilds and Statistics Updates If you’re already running Ola Hallengren’s maintenance solution, this won’t replace it, but the approach here might still be useful: a small, readable T-SQL generator that builds…

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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Index Maintenance

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Maintenance & Automation Index problems rarely announce themselves. A missing index shows up as a slow query someone eventually complains about; a duplicate or unused one just sits there costing write overhead and storage with nothing to show for it; fragmentation quietly degrades…

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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Get Index Design Issues

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Maintenance & Automation › Index Maintenance Most index problems aren’t about a single bad index, they’re about a table’s index design as a whole drifting out of shape over time. A table that accumulates 25 indexes because nobody ever removed the old ones.…

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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Get Duplicate Indexes

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Maintenance & Automation › Index Maintenance Indexes accumulate the same way clutter does: one developer adds an index to fix a slow query, a colleague adds a near-identical one three months later because the first one wasn’t obvious from the name, and nobody…

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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Get Unused Indexes

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Maintenance & Automation › Index Maintenance Every non-clustered index has to be maintained by SQL Server on every INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE against the table. A table with 12 non-clustered indexes means 12 index updates for every row changed. Some of those indexes…

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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Get Index Usage Stats

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Maintenance & Automation › Index Maintenance The Raw Usage Data Behind Every Index Decision Unused Indexes already filters straight to drop candidates in one database. This script is the raw data underneath that filter, and more: every index across every user database, its…

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    Peter Whyte
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