Storage budgets shrink faster than databases grow. Uncompressed tables and indexes often carry two to four times the physical page count that row or page compression would require — a gap that widens with every batch load or continuous INSERT. sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats joined to sys.partitions surfaces every …

Open the SQL Agent job history on an instance that has been running for a decade and you will still find DBCC DBREINDEX in a nightly maintenance step, quietly doing its job. It works — which is exactly why nobody has touched it. But it has been deprecated for the better part of twenty years, it locks tables it does not …

Duplicate and overlapping indexes waste storage, slow down every write, and split optimizer statistics across redundant copies. This T-SQL script compares each non-heap index in the current database on its first sixteen key columns and surfaces any pair of indexes that overlap, giving the DBA a short list of cleanup …

Report Index Fragmentation Across All Tables in SQL Server This script queries sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats to report external and internal fragmentation for every index in the current database, filtering to indexes with significant fragmentation and enough pages to make maintenance worthwhile. Purpose and Overview …

Find Unused Nonclustered Indexes in SQL Server This script queries sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats to identify nonclustered indexes that have never been used by any read operation since the last SQL Server restart, yet still carry write overhead with every INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE on the table. Purpose and Overview Every …