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Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Administrator's Companion
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Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Administrator's Companion

by Edward Whalen, Marcilina Garcia, Burzin Patel, Stacia Misner, Victor Isakov
November 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1232 pages
34h 10m
English
Microsoft Press
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Index Maintenance and Tuning

Maintaining indexes is an ongoing operation. Because of factors such as page splits and updates to index branch and leaf pages, the index often becomes fragmented. Even though the data is stored in a logically contiguous manner, with time it is no longer physically contiguous. Thus, the indexes should be reorganized occasionally. In this section, you will learn some of the fundamentals for discovering information about indexes and how to maintain indexes.

Monitoring Indexes

Monitoring Indexes might be a slight misnomer. It really is more of a task of investigating indexes, determining their effectiveness, and determining whether these indexes are being used. Whether an index is used really depends on how effective it ...

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