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Looks good.<br />
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I will try these out in our next maintenance window in 2 days.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Dean
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Looks good.

I will try these out in our next maintenance window in 2 days.

Thanks,
Dean

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We got a chance to review index usage stats during idle time today. Unfortunately, it did not reveal any indices we could get rid of.<br />
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Thank you &nbsp;all for your feedback!<br />
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Dean
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We got a chance to review index usage stats during idle time today. Unfortunately, it did not reveal any indices we could get rid of.

Thank you  all for your feedback!

Dean

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We have a large table that is heavily-indexed and I am convinced some of the indices are no longer in use.<br />
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Does SQL offer any way to find out when the last time an index was accessed or other means to see how often it is used?<br />
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Thanks.
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We have a large table that is heavily-indexed and I am convinced some of the indices are no longer in use.

Does SQL offer any way to find out when the last time an index was accessed or other means to see how often it is used?

Thanks.

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