SQL SERVER – How to Drop All the Hypothetical Indexes of Database?

Earlier I wrote a blog post SQL SERVER – Say No To Database Engine Tuning Advisor and I got an email from my existing client where I frequently engage for Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. They wanted me to help them remove all the negative impact of the Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA). I was able to help them achieve this by removing the Hypothetical Indexes they had added using the DTA.

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SQL SERVER – Query Listing All the Indexes Key Column with Included Column

Today’s blog post is directly inspired by the conversation I had during my Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. During the consulting engagement, we identified the customers had too many indexes on tables. The goal was to consolidate the indexes and to do the same, we realized that we needed a script which lists all the key columns and included columns of the indexes.

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SQL SERVER – Say No To Database Engine Tuning Advisor

I have been using SQL Server for over 20 years and have been working on the focused area of SQL Server Performance Tuning for over 12 years. In recent time I have been very busy doing Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, and the client, I enjoy working the most is the one who has used in the past Database Engine Tuning Advisor.

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SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop – Relaunched

In the year 2017 just for an experiment, I decided to start a SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop. I had no idea, that I will be the biggest and most popular service delivered by SQLAuthority.com. Since the year 2017, I have been delivering one or two workshops every week.

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