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pushp82
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Posted - 2012-01-19 : 05:29:52
Hi Friends,

We are in stage to live our web in few days. so in this case I want some help from expert that: How can I determine if we need index on tables as we have primary key (clustered) on all tables?
I there any exercise available that can help me.. prior to live our database......?

You may think me dumb here but I need answer here...
thanks in advance...

Thanks

GilaMonster
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

4507 Posts

Posted - 2012-01-19 : 05:48:32
If you have anything more than a handful of rows and you're ever filtering or joining on columns other than the primary key, then you need indexes. That's the short of it.

[url]http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/finding-the-causes-of-poor-performance-in-sql-server,-part-1/[/url]
[url]http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/finding-the-causes-of-poor-performance-in-sql-server,-part-2/[/url]

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Gail Shaw
SQL Server MVP
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pushp82
Yak Posting Veteran

83 Posts

Posted - 2012-01-19 : 07:37:41
quote:
Originally posted by GilaMonster

If you have anything more than a handful of rows and you're ever filtering or joining on columns other than the primary key, then you need indexes. That's the short of it.

[url]http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/finding-the-causes-of-poor-performance-in-sql-server,-part-1/[/url]
[url]http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/finding-the-causes-of-poor-performance-in-sql-server,-part-2/[/url]

--
Gail Shaw
SQL Server MVP


thank you!!! information was helpfull.
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