Can You Dig It? – SHOWPLAN XML Structure

Follow the rest of this series at the Can You Dig It? - Plan Cache series introduction post. She can dig it! D Sharon Pruitt In the last couple plan cache posts, I talked about a couple items that are available within the SHOWPLAN XML for an execution plan.  These posts looked at how to … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – SHOWPLAN XML Structure

Can You Dig It? – Missing Indexes

Follow the rest of this series at the Can You Dig It? - Plan Cache series introduction post. She can dig it! D Sharon Pruitt When I started using XQuery to dig into the plan cache, it was just searching for some parallelism and I really wasn’t aware that I was using XQuery.  I just … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – Missing Indexes

Return of the Index Analysis Report

Finally up to the last post of this series resurgence.  Time to update the Index Analysis Custom Report that I developed last year. The previous posts in this complete series are: Analyze Your Indexes Part 1 – Combine existing index statistics and missing indexes into a single output Analyze Your Indexes Part 2 – Find … Continue reading Return of the Index Analysis Report

Return of Index Analysis Part 5

Alright, up to the last of the changes I’ve made to the index analysis query that I had planned.  This makes the fifth post in the series on this query. The previous posts in this complete series are: Analyze Your Indexes Part 1 – Combine existing index statistics and missing indexes into a single output … Continue reading Return of Index Analysis Part 5

Return of Index Analysis Part 4

We’ve got through the first three parts of this continued series on the Index Analysis query last week.  The previous posts in this complete series are: Analyze Your Indexes Part 1 – Combine existing index statistics and missing indexes into a single output Analyze Your Indexes Part 2 – Find existing duplicate and overlapping indexes … Continue reading Return of Index Analysis Part 4

Return of Index Analysis Part 3

Time for part three of my continued Index Analysis query.  The previous posts in this series are: Analyze Your Indexes Part 1 – Combine existing index statistics and missing indexes into a single output Analyze Your Indexes Part 2 – Find existing duplicate and overlapping indexes Analyze Your Indexes Part 3 – Find the relationship … Continue reading Return of Index Analysis Part 3

Return of Index Analysis Part 2

Time for part two of my continued Index Analysis query.  The previous posts in this series are: Analyze Your Indexes Part 1 – Combine existing index statistics and missing indexes into a single output Analyze Your Indexes Part 2 – Find existing duplicate and overlapping indexes Analyze Your Indexes Part 3 – Find the relationship … Continue reading Return of Index Analysis Part 2

Return of Index Analysis Part 1

Time for part two of my continued Index Analysis query.  The previous posts in this series are: Analyze Your Indexes Part 1 – Combine existing index statistics and missing indexes into a single output Analyze Your Indexes Part 2 – Find existing duplicate and overlapping indexes Analyze Your Indexes Part 3 – Find the relationship … Continue reading Return of Index Analysis Part 1

Return of Index Analysis

Now that I've finished going through some of the details for sys.dm_db_index_operational_stats, it’s time to take that information and incorporate it into a query that I wrote about a while back. This query is an index analysis query that I often use when I go out to clients.  The query provides a information about the … Continue reading Return of Index Analysis

Index Black Ops Part 6 – Fill Factor vs. Page Splits

In my TSQL2sDay index summary post, that I’d be writing a few posts on the information that is contained in sys.dm_db_index_operational_stats. The posts are  the following: Index Black Ops Part 1 – Locking and Blocking Index Black Ops Part 2 – Page IO Latch, Page Latch Index Black Ops Part 3 – Index Usage Index … Continue reading Index Black Ops Part 6 – Fill Factor vs. Page Splits