Unpredictive Index Drops in SQL Server 2005

  • Hi All,

    We have a bunch of databases hosted on SQL Server 2005.

    Very randomly (once in 3 to 5 months) we have came across instances where on some day database started responding very slow. then after investigation we figure out that indexes were dropped. We are not able to figure out how, Why and on what basis they were dropped. The tables are also randomly chosen.

    We tried to capture all DDL changes using a trigger but that trigger was eating up CPU, so we have to disable it.

    Any ideas to figure out how we can catch this incident or to rectify this.

  • DDL trigger (filtered to drop index) or a server-side trace.

    A well-written DDL trigger shouldn't have much if any impact. DDL should be a relatively infrequent operation (other than stats updates)

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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