In the previous episode we discussed the basics of using indexes, what they are, how to use them, along with some common problems and solutions. One of the problems you will certainly face as time passes is index fragmentation. While indexes will certainly help your database perform well, they do require care and feeding--meaning there is some administrative overhead.
In this episode, we continue our conversation with Randolph West and discuss what we can do to take care of indexes and keep them well maintained over time. There is an option to use default maintenance plans and to do fragmentation and updating statistics, but should you use them? What are the alternatives? We didn’t forget to consider strategies for deciding which indexes to keep and which can be dropped.
The shownotes for today’s episode is found at http://sqldatapartners.com/2017/02/08/episode-82-indexes-part-2/ and have fun on the SQL trail.
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Episode 194: PolyBase Use Cases
Episode 193: Power BI Premium
Episode 192: The DBA is Dead! Long Live the DBA!
Episode 191: Power BI Row-Level Security
Episode 190: SQL Server 2019
Episode 189: Power BI Common Data Model
Episode 188: Databricks
Episode 187: Power BI Performance Tuning
Episode 186: Analytics & Security: Find Pain Points, Make a Plan
Episode 185: DBATools in a Month of Lunches
Episode 184: Where do people get stuck with Power BI?
Episode 183: SQL Server Big Data Clusters
Episode 182: XEvents
Episode 181: Paginated Reports in Power BI
Episode 180: PolyBase in SQL Server 2019
Episode 179: SQL Trail Recap & Buying Power BI
Episode 178: Database Design
Episode 177: Lock Pages in Memory
Episode 176: Power BI Storage Options
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