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SQL Server DMVs in Action
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SQL Server DMVs in Action

by Ian Stirk
May 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
352 pages
11h 27m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 10. The self-healing database

 

This chapter covers
  • The self-healing database and automation
  • Automatically recompiling slow routines
  • Automatically performing index and statistics maintenance
  • Automatically disabling or dropping unused indexes
  • Automatically creating the most-important missing indexes

 

The concept of a self-healing database relates to the ability of SQL Server to self-correct problems and potential problems before they become noticeable to users. You can implement this by creating a series of SQL Server agent jobs that run periodically. This chapter covers a miscellany of functionality that collectively can automatically improve the performance of your database queries.

The scripts contained in this chapter will ...

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