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Lijo Cheeran Joseph
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123 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-25 : 03:21:50
Hi Team,

I am trying to tune a database, first time in my life. I have got a list of ‘costly indexes’. The costliest index is a clustered index which is on a primary key. The table structure is (ProcessStepID INT (PK), SubmissionReviewID INT, LKProcessStepCode VARCHAR(50))

The ProcessStepID is the primary key. The SubmissionReviewID can be null (most of the time) when the record is created in this table. Then it will get updated.

Is it a good idea to create a clustered index based on SubmissionReviewID (and then create primary key as ProcessStepID) ?

Please advise…

Note: High cost queries are found using:
[Maintenance cost] = (user_updates + system_updates)


Thanks
Lijo

Lumbago
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3271 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-25 : 04:38:03
What do you mean by this:
quote:
Note: High cost queries are found using:
[Maintenance cost] = (user_updates + system_updates)
What are "user_updates" and "system_updates"?

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Lumbago
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Posted - 2010-11-25 : 04:42:14
http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/learn-sql-server/sql-server-index-basics/

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