Category Archives: Index
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Force only certain values to be unique
1October 22, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
I thought of something rather interesting the other day while answering a question asking for help with some table structures. …
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Update to “The clustered index columns are in all of the non clustered indexes.”
5October 20, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
I certainly hadn’t planned on creating a part two of my post on clustered index columns but in the comments …
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SchemaBinding – What & Why
29August 6, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
What When you use the SchemaBinding keyword while creating a view or function you bind the structure of any underlying …
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The clustered index columns are in all of the non clustered indexes.
13July 30, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
Did you know that whatever columns you pick as your clustered index will be included in any non clustered indexes …
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DBA Myths: A table with a primary key is not a heap
5May 21, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
Typically when you see a heading like this you know the answer is “No” or “False” but in this case …
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DBA Myths: An index on a bit column will never be used.
4February 17, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
Not true. (Or I guess probably wouldn’t be posting about it would I?) Probably the first thing I should point …
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A better way to find missing indexes
13November 11, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher
I recently attended SQL Saturday #255 and specifically the performance tuning pre-con put on by Grant Fritchey. It was a …
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Query to compare indexes between two tables
Leave a commentOctober 16, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher
We have a set of databases at my office that use the load and swap method of loading data with …
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Small changes, big effects
Leave a commentJanuary 30, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher
We got a call last week about an application that was running slowly. The server was showing about 80% CPU …
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