Yesterday while adding some new logic to an existing process I noticed an unacceptable level of performance degradation with the routine. Investigation led me to find that a new table had slipped through the net and been created without a clustered index. Needless to say adding a clustered index and rebuilding the non-clustered indexes on the table improved the performance of the routine significantly.
Being a DBA, this got me thinking about how this had slipped through the net, how I could prevent it in future and equally as important how many other existing tables didn't have a Clustered Index? I knocked together the below script which will create a SQL Job that is scheduled to run every Monday at 07:07 and email an operator if there are any tables without a clustered index in all user databases.
There are a few things that will need changing;
· @notify_email_operator_name=N'Chris'
· SET @EmailProfile = ''Chris''
· SET @EmailRecipient = ''Chris@SQLServer365.co.uk''
You can also obviously change the schedule accordingly to suit your needs.
I would be interested to know the results on your servers, leave me a comment with the email subject text from the resulting email.
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-- Set database context
USE [msdb]
GO
IF EXISTS (SELECT job_id FROMmsdb.dbo.sysjobs_view WHEREname = N'Alert - TablesWithoutClusteredIndex')
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_delete_job @job_name = N'Alert - TablesWithoutClusteredIndex',@delete_unused_schedule=1
GO
BEGIN TRANSACTION
DECLARE@ReturnCode INT
SELECT@ReturnCode = 0
IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT name FROM msdb.dbo.syscategories WHERE name=N'[Uncategorized (Local)]' ANDcategory_class=1)
BEGIN
EXEC@ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_category @class=N'JOB', @type=N'LOCAL', @name=N'[Uncategorized (Local)]'
IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <>0) GOTOQuitWithRollback
END
DECLARE @jobId BINARY(16)
EXEC@ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_job @job_name=N'Alert - TablesWithoutClusteredIndex',
@enabled=1,
@notify_level_eventlog=0,
@notify_level_email=2,
@notify_level_netsend=0,
@notify_level_page=0,
@delete_level=0,
@description=N'This job runs on a Monday morning at 07:07 and will email if there are any tables without a clustered index in any user database.',
@category_name=N'[Uncategorized (Local)]',
@owner_login_name=N'sa', @notify_email_operator_name=N'Chris', @job_id = @jobId OUTPUT
IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <>0) GOTOQuitWithRollback
/****** Object: Step [Find tables Without a Clustered Index] Script Date: 11/29/2012 12:20:42 ******/
EXEC@ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobstep @job_id=@jobId, @step_name=N'Find tables Without a Clustered Index',
@step_id=1,
@cmdexec_success_code=0,
@on_success_action=1,
@on_success_step_id=0,
@on_fail_action=2,
@on_fail_step_id=0,
@retry_attempts=0,
@retry_interval=0,
@os_run_priority=0, @subsystem=N'TSQL',
@command=N'-- Set database context
USE master;
GO
-- Declare variables
DECLARE @EmailProfile VARCHAR(255)
DECLARE @EmailRecipient VARCHAR(255)
DECLARE @EmailSubject VARCHAR(255)
DECLARE @IndexUsageStats INT
DECLARE @TableCount INT
DECLARE @DatabaseCount INT
-- Set variables
SET @EmailProfile = ''Chris''
SET @EmailRecipient = ''Chris.McGowan@SQLServer365.co.uk''
-- Drop temporary table if exists
IF OBJECT_ID(''tempDB.dbo.#NoClusteredIndex'') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE #NoClusteredIndex;
-- Create Temporary Table
CREATE TABLE #NoClusteredIndex
(
DatabaseName VARCHAR(255) ,
SchemaName VARCHAR(255) ,
TableName VARCHAR(1000)
);
INSERT INTO #NoClusteredIndex
EXEC sp_msforeachdb ''USE [?];
IF ''''?'''' NOT IN (''''master'''', ''''model'''',''''msdb'''', ''''tempdb'''', ''''ReportServer'''', ''''ReportServerTempDB'''', ''''Distribution'''')
BEGIN
SELECT DISTINCT DB_NAME() AS DatabaseName, SCHEMA_NAME(s.[schema_id]) AS SchemaName, OBJECT_NAME(i.[object_id]) AS TableName
FROM sys.indexes i
INNER JOIN sys.objects o ON o.[object_id] = i.[object_id]
INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.[schema_id] = o.[schema_id]
WHERE i.INDEX_ID = 0
AND OBJECTPROPERTY(i.[object_id],''''IsUserTable'''') = 1
ORDER BY DatabaseName, SchemaName, TableName ASC;
END
''
-- Check for tables without a clustered index
IF EXISTS ( SELECT 1
FROM #NoClusteredIndex)
BEGIN
DECLARE @tableHTML NVARCHAR(MAX);
SET @tableHTML = N''<style type="text/css">''
+ N''.h1 {font-family: Arial, verdana;font-size:16px;border:0px;background-color:white;} ''
+ N''.h2 {font-family: Arial, verdana;font-size:12px;border:0px;background-color:white;} ''
+ N''body {font-family: Arial, verdana;} ''
+ N''table{font-size:12px; border-collapse:collapse;border:1px solid black; padding:3px;} ''
+ N''td{background-color:#F1F1F1; border:1px solid black; padding:3px;} ''
+ N''th{background-color:#99CCFF; border:1px solid black; padding:3px;}''
+ N''</style>'' + N''<table border="1">'' + N''<tr>''
+ N''<th>DatabaseName</th>''
+ N''<th>SchemaName</th>''
+ N''<th>TableName</th>''
+ N''</tr>''
+ CAST(( SELECT td = DatabaseName,
'''',
td = SchemaName,
'''',
td = TableName,
''''
FROM #NoClusteredIndex
FOR
XML PATH(''tr'') ,
TYPE
) AS NVARCHAR(MAX)) + N''</table>'';
-- Count tables
SELECT @TableCount = COUNT(1) FROM #NoClusteredIndex;
-- Count tables
SELECT @DatabaseCount = COUNT(DISTINCT DatabaseName) FROM #NoClusteredIndex;
-- Set subject
SET @EmailSubject = ''ALERT - '' + CAST(@TableCount AS VARCHAR(100)) + '' Tables without a Clustered Index on '' + @@SERVERNAME + '' accross '' + CAST(@DatabaseCount AS VARCHAR(100)) + '' databases''
-- Email results
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail @profile_name = @EmailProfile,
@recipients = @EmailRecipient, @subject = @EmailSubject,
@body = @tableHTML, @body_format = ''HTML'';
END
GO',
@database_name=N'master',
@flags=12
IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <>0) GOTOQuitWithRollback
EXEC@ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_update_job @job_id = @jobId, @start_step_id = 1
IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <>0) GOTOQuitWithRollback
EXEC@ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobschedule @job_id=@jobId, @name=N'(07:07) Monday',
@enabled=1,
@freq_type=8,
@freq_interval=2,
@freq_subday_type=1,
@freq_subday_interval=0,
@freq_relative_interval=0,
@freq_recurrence_factor=1,
@active_start_date=20121129,
@active_end_date=99991231,
@active_start_time=70700,
@active_end_time=235959
IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <>0) GOTOQuitWithRollback
EXEC@ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobserver @job_id = @jobId, @server_name = N'(local)'
IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <>0) GOTOQuitWithRollback
COMMIT TRANSACTION
GOTO EndSave
QuitWithRollback:
IF (@@TRANCOUNT > 0) ROLLBACK TRANSACTION
EndSave:
GO
Enjoy!
Chris
