02: Indexing and Stats Maintenance

In this episode we talk with Erik Darling and Erin Stellato about index maintenance, statistics, and the Index Maintenance Revolution! We also get to see more failed attempts at getting Andrew's name correct during our intro.

RESOURCES
From Erin:
https://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/erin/updating-statistics-with-ola-hallengrens-script/
https://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/erin/sqlskills-sql101-updating-sql-server-statistics-part-i-automatic-updates/
https://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/erin/sqlskills-sql101-updating-sql-server-statistics-part-ii-scheduled-updates/
https://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/erin/troubleshooting-a-change-in-query-performance/

From Erik:
https://www.erikdarlingdata.com/sql-server/because-your-index-maintenance-script-is-measuring-the-wrong-thing/
https://www.erikdarlingdata.com/sql-server/what-metrics-does-rebuilding-indexes-improve/
https://www.erikdarlingdata.com/sp_humanevents/
https://www.erikdarlingdata.com/sp_pressuredetector/

GUESTS
Erik Darling
Blog: https://www.erikdarlingdata.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/erikdarlingdata

Erin Stellato
Blog: https://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/erin/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/erinstellato

Intro sound from Freesound: https://freesound.org/people/Kleber_KGF/sounds/354019/