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Best Practices in Index Maintenance - Fighting the Silent Performance Killers

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Overview Index fragmentation is a serious issue. It causes significant SQL Server performance issues, leading to loss of money and time. The problem is native tools alone aren't the solution to fragmentation. In this new Quest white paper, learn about index fragmentation and why native and custom-coded approaches aren't ideal. It then outlines a robust and reliable solution that works to effectively defrag indexes for strong database performance. Read it today.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Quest Software	File Format	HTML & PDF
Date Published	August 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Knowledge and Data Management, Back-up, Storage Management, Hard Drives, High Performance Computing

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