Do keep in mind that the sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats dynamic management view is reset to all zeros every time the SQL Server instance is restarted, so don't restart SQL Server then disable ...

Before dropping an index in a SQL Server database, carefully evaluate its impact on query performance, usage statistics, covering queries, and data modification operations.

The most important performance-tuning technique available is having the needed indexes created on the tables to ensure that the SQL Server database engine is able to get the data that it needs to ...

SQL Server 2008 comes with quite a few new features that have more stress on query performance such as filtered index. In this article, we will see how exactly filter indexes help SQL developers and ...

When you use index views in the right situations, they can dramatically improve the performance of SQL Server queries. Tim Chapman explains why performance testing is the best way to tell if ...

Troubleshooting SQL index performance on varchar columns 18 July, 2012. ... For each row, SQL Server would convert the index’s value to NVARCHAR, as seen in the index plan’s details around the ...