PowerShell & SQL Server: Search & Find Indexes By SchemaName, TableName, IndexName Or ColumnName Across Instances/DB’s

Necessity is the mother of new PowerShell code :-)! Today, I received an email request to get the list of all indexes in a given TableName but the requester did not specify the DatabaseName although the SQL InstanceName was specified. It would be too easy to ask the person for the DBName and script it …

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SQL Server: Identify And Defragment Indexes Using DBCC SHOWCONTIG & DBCC INDEXDEFRAG

Update Sep 7, 2018: This article uses deprecated commands. Please checkout this blog post on "Alter Index Vs DBCC IndexDefrag Vs DBCC DBReIndex". In the newer versions, I prefer ALTER INDEX although it has not been good at defragmenting in all cases. A good defrag script is worth its weight in gold. This time, I copied …

Oracle’s APPEND Hint – The Key Secret To Fast BULK Loading With NOLOGGING!

Oracle's logical storage structures: To developers who work with Oracle, the concept of tablespace is familiar.  We create tables and indexes in tablespaces taking appropriate care not to place all of our data into one tablespace. Let us take a quick look at the logical structure of an Oracle database A database has one or …