Lukas Vileikis in Blogs Thoughts Before Covering MariaDB Indexes in the MariaDB Server Fest 2024 This blog outlines why you should be coming to see a talk on MariaDB indexes at the MariaDB Server Fest... 13 September 2024 4 min read
Jonathan Lewis Problems with Indexes In my book “Cost Based Oracle – Fundamentals” (Apress 2005) I described a problem with the cost calculation for the... 20 January 2017 7 min read
Jonathan Lewis Investigating Indexes – 2 In an earlier article on investigating indexes I described some methods for looking at the internal structure of an index... 09 January 2017 16 min read
Jonathan Lewis Hacking Indexes Indexes are expensive to maintain so we want to get the greatest benefit we can from them and make sure... 03 October 2016 14 min read
Seth Delconte Introduction to SQL Server Filtered Indexes SQL Server filtered indexes can save space and improve performance if they are used properly. Under what circumstances can they... 19 April 2013 13 min read
Database Administration Grant Fritchey in Database Administration Grant Fritchey’s SQL Server Howlers We decided to ask various well-known SQL Server people to write about their favourite SQL Server Howlers. These are the... 30 November 2011 16 min read
Laerte Junior Exceptional PowerShell DBA Pt 3 – Collation and Fragmentation In this final look into his everyday essentials, Laerte Junior provides some useful scripts for the DBA that use an... 11 February 2010 15 min read
Laerte Junior Reducing I/O with the ‘Missing Indexes’ DMVs Laerte recently experienced an I/O nightmare, which, as a happy accident, gave him an opportunity to test out the 'Missing... 09 October 2009 14 min read
