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J. StrateExpert Performance Indexing in SQL Server 2019https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5464-6_14

14. Index Analysis

Jason Strate1 
(1)
Hugo, MN, USA
 

In the previous chapter, we discussed what information should be collected when monitoring indexes. All of that information is necessary for the next piece of indexing your databases, which is determining which indexes to apply. In this chapter, we will take all the information gathered while monitoring and use it to analyze the state of performance and the value of the existing indexes. The end goal of the index analysis is to build a list of indexes to create, modify, and, potentially, drop from the databases. In many cases, the analysis of the indexes will appear to border on ...

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