Index

  • all of a sudden I have found there are indexes missing for a production table which never happend before, what would be the reason and how can find the reason ?

  • How did you discover the indexes were missing in the first place?

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  • Were the indexes removed or are you referring to "missing indexes" reflected in query plans or sys.dm_db_missing_index_details ?

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  • i believe the DDL statement DROP index would be captured in the default trace;

    you can use the GUI filtered version and find out whodunnit if not too much time has passed:

    Lowell


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  • I looked at the schema change history but got only changes what i have made today (create index) but i did rebuild indexes month ago which is done from an automated jobs (rebuilds/re organize as per gragmentation level ), do you think that might caused to drop them ? but actually its a schduled job which run every month and wondering why it happend only last month which never happend before since a year.

  • Tara-1044200 (6/22/2010)


    i did rebuild indexes month ago which is done from an automated jobs (rebuilds/re organize as per gragmentation level ), do you think that might caused to drop them ?

    in that case job would have been got failed.

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  • nope, the job was successfull.

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