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darius_sutherland
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Posted - 2008-09-08 : 09:32:44
Never a big fan of wizards and not fully up on how to use the new one in 2005.

Ive run a few queries through them and lo and behold it can impreove them, mainly by adding stats or indexes.

Is it a good idea to follow the advice or do you guys manually tweak based on what you see.

Im curious as to...If I followed the advice given and ran the update, it may speed up the current query but what about other queries in the system, could it have a detrimental effect and then when I tune the other queries would it then effect the other changes committed.

Thanx in advance

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jsmith8858
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Posted - 2008-09-08 : 10:37:21
Usually the best way is to think logically about your data and how you are querying it. If you are often filtering on a particular column, then it usually makes sense to index that column in some way. In addition, remember that a large part of optimizing isn't just indexing your tables, but also the database design overall and ensuring that your SQL is efficient.

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darius_sutherland
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Posted - 2008-09-08 : 11:34:39
Okay. Reading up on these include columns.

What would you say a general rule would be for these. It's a 2000 DB to 2005 which is why most of the tuning advice is to add these include columns??

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darius_sutherland
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Posted - 2008-09-10 : 10:38:52
No takers on what I thought would be an easy subject.

Im still uncertain as to what to index/include. Running the tuner on some of my queries just seems to create e.g another index, which has already been created as a clustered index and more or less all the columns that are retrieved via the query.

I don't want to tune the DB for one query, speeding that query up which then in turn has detremantal affects on something else / another query

??

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