Finding un-used indexes

  • You may well have stumbled on a bug here -

    I will do some more searching on the web for similar info.

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    SQL Server 2016 Columnstore Index Enhancements - System Views for Disk-Based Tables[/url]
    Persisting SQL Server Index-Usage Statistics with MERGE[/url]
    Turbocharge Your Database Maintenance With Service Broker: Part 2[/url]

  • Marios Philippopoulos (6/2/2008)


    You may well have stumbled on a bug here -

    I will do some more searching on the web for similar info.

    I find it hard to believe that its a bug, considering how many people use the DMV

    My money is on the permissions the web user has, but this does not make too much sense, but its a possibility.

    I too am scouring like a maniac- searching for useful info amongst the repeats of index usage stats info is getting hard 🙂

  • from the blog of Colin Leversuch-Roberts http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/grumpyolddba/:

    What I’ve found in large production systems is that you cannot guarantee that data on every index is held in the dmvs at all times...

    Also, this link is loaded with very useful info:

    http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/grumpyolddba/archive/2008/02/18/analysing-indexes-summary.aspx

    __________________________________________________________________________________
    SQL Server 2016 Columnstore Index Enhancements - System Views for Disk-Based Tables[/url]
    Persisting SQL Server Index-Usage Statistics with MERGE[/url]
    Turbocharge Your Database Maintenance With Service Broker: Part 2[/url]

  • Marios Philippopoulos (6/2/2008)


    from the blog of Colin Leversuch-Roberts http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/grumpyolddba/:

    What I’ve found in large production systems is that you cannot guarantee that data on every index is held in the dmvs at all times...

    Also, this link is loaded with very useful info:

    http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/grumpyolddba/archive/2008/02/18/analysing-indexes-summary.aspx

    Thank you very much. A quick scan through the documents does not really shed more light though, as my DB at 45GiG is smaller and has far fewer indexes than that article mentions, and yet my stats are really far off. Microsoft makes me cry 20 years on still :/

  • Stress (6/2/2008)


    Marios Philippopoulos (6/2/2008)


    from the blog of Colin Leversuch-Roberts http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/grumpyolddba/:

    What I’ve found in large production systems is that you cannot guarantee that data on every index is held in the dmvs at all times...

    Also, this link is loaded with very useful info:

    http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/grumpyolddba/archive/2008/02/18/analysing-indexes-summary.aspx

    Thank you very much. A quick scan through the documents does not really shed more light though, as my DB at 45GiG is smaller and has far fewer indexes than that article mentions, and yet my stats are really far off. Microsoft makes me cry 20 years on still :/

    Most people - myself included - take DMV results as written on stone.

    After Colin's blogs and your current problem, I'm not so sure any more...

    Makes me want to test this out myself.

    __________________________________________________________________________________
    SQL Server 2016 Columnstore Index Enhancements - System Views for Disk-Based Tables[/url]
    Persisting SQL Server Index-Usage Statistics with MERGE[/url]
    Turbocharge Your Database Maintenance With Service Broker: Part 2[/url]

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