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Unused indexes on a database, its good and bad

Published 27 July 7 8:51 AM | SSQA.net

You may be aware that the indexes on a SQL Server database take up space, so in case of unused indexes its obvious that they waste storage. It is easy to find the indexes using SP_HELPINDEX statement against a table, so to identify the unused indexes...

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Get a blocking list for the objects & indexes using DMV

Published 13 June 7 9:44 AM | SSQA.net

Yet another help from DMV I would like to share here, say on a SQL Instance you are getting low-level I/O and blocking intermittently. For the I/O issues using SYSMON (PERFMON) is ideal to get more information during the busy times and low-usage times...

Filed under: sql server, performance, indexes, dmv, query, object