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SQL Server Best Practices: Auto-Create and Auto-Update Statistics Should Be On - Most of the Time

SQL Server uses something called the "Query Optimizer" to find the data you're looking for. To do that, there is another mechanism, called "Statistics", which can be created and maintained on columns in a table - even tables that don't have an Index.

Index Overlaps

There are a lot of tools in SQL Server 2005 that will help you with indexes, from enhanced plan diagrams to the Database Tuning Advisor. But I was scouting around this morning for a script that would find places where I had indexes that included duplicate
 
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