Frequently we hear the analogy that <insert item here> are like opinions, everybody has one and not all of them are good (some may stink).
Well, this may just be another one of those <items>. Whether it stinks or not may depend on your mileage. It’s a missing indexes script.
I had shared a similar script back in January 2012 and wanted to share something a little more current. As is the case for many DB professionals, I am always tweaking (not twerking) and refining the script to try and make it more robust and a little more accurate.
This version does a couple of things differently than the previous version. For one, this is a single database at a time (the prior version looped through all of the databases with a less refined query). Another significant difference is that this query is designed to try and pull information from multiple places about the missing indexes and execution statistics. I felt this could prove more advantageous and useful than to just pull the information from one place.
Here is the current working script.
The following script gets altered on display. n.VALUE is displayed but in the code it is actually n.value. The code display is wrong but it is correct in the code as presented in the editor. If copying from this page, please change the U-cased “VALUE” in the XML segment to “value” so it will work. A download of the script has been added at the end.
SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED;
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#MissingIndexInfo', 'U') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE #MissingIndexInfo;
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#MissingIdxSuperInfo', 'U') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE #MissingIdxSuperInfo;
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#top20', 'U') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE #top20;
SET NOCOUNT ON;
WITH XMLNAMESPACES
(DEFAULT 'https://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2004/07/showplan')
SELECT query_plan, plan_handle,sql_handle,execution_count,
n.VALUE('(@StatementText)[1]', 'VARCHAR(4000)') AS sql_text,
--n.value('(//MissingIndexGroup/@Impact)[1]', 'FLOAT') AS impact,
DB_ID(REPLACE(REPLACE(n.VALUE('(//MissingIndex/@Database)[1]', 'VARCHAR(128)'),'[',''),']','')) AS database_id,
OBJECT_ID(n.VALUE('(//MissingIndex/@Database)[1]', 'VARCHAR(128)') + '.' +
n.VALUE('(//MissingIndex/@Schema)[1]', 'VARCHAR(128)') + '.' +
n.VALUE('(//MissingIndex/@Table)[1]', 'VARCHAR(128)')) AS OBJECT_ID,
n.VALUE('(//MissingIndex/@Database)[1]', 'VARCHAR(128)') + '.' +
n.VALUE('(//MissingIndex/@Schema)[1]', 'VARCHAR(128)') + '.' +
n.VALUE('(//MissingIndex/@Table)[1]', 'VARCHAR(128)')
AS STATEMENT
INTO #MissingIndexInfo
FROM
(
SELECT query_plan,plan_handle,sql_handle,execution_count
FROM (
SELECT DISTINCT plan_handle,sql_handle,execution_count
FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats
) AS qs
OUTER APPLY sys.dm_exec_query_plan(qs.plan_handle) tp
WHERE tp.query_plan.exist('//MissingIndex')=1
) AS tab (query_plan,plan_handle,sql_handle,execution_count)
CROSS APPLY query_plan.nodes('//StmtSimple') AS q(n)
WHERE n.exist('QueryPlan/MissingIndexes') = 1
AND DB_ID(REPLACE(REPLACE(n.VALUE('(//MissingIndex/@Database)[1]', 'VARCHAR(128)'),'[',''),']','')) = DB_ID()
CREATE CLUSTERED INDEX ci_sqlhandle ON #MissingIndexInfo(sql_handle)
SELECT MII.database_id ,
MII.OBJECT_ID ,
MII.plan_handle ,
MII.sql_handle ,
MII.execution_count ,
CA.equality_columns ,
CA.inequality_columns ,
CA.included_columns ,
CA.Impact ,
CA.unique_compiles ,
CA.user_seeks ,
CA.avg_total_user_cost ,
CA.avg_user_impact ,
CA.last_user_seek
INTO #MissingIdxSuperInfo
FROM #MissingIndexInfo MII
CROSS APPLY ( SELECT mid.database_id ,
mid.OBJECT_ID ,
mid.equality_columns ,
mid.inequality_columns ,
mid.included_columns ,
migs.unique_compiles ,
migs.user_seeks ,
migs.avg_total_user_cost ,
migs.avg_user_impact ,
migs.last_user_seek ,
( avg_total_user_cost * avg_user_impact )
* ( user_seeks + user_scans ) AS Impact
FROM sys.dm_db_missing_index_group_stats AS migs
INNER JOIN sys.dm_db_missing_index_groups AS mig
ON migs.group_handle = mig.index_group_handle
INNER JOIN sys.dm_db_missing_index_details AS mid
ON mig.index_handle = mid.index_handle
AND mid.database_id = DB_ID()
) CA
WHERE 1 = 1
AND CA.database_id = MII.database_id
AND CA.OBJECT_ID = MII.OBJECT_ID;
SELECT DISTINCT TOP 20
plan_handle ,
MAX(Impact) AS Impact
INTO #top20
FROM #MissingIdxSuperInfo
GROUP BY plan_handle
ORDER BY Impact DESC;
WITH finalsel
AS ( SELECT SI.* ,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( PARTITION BY SI.equality_columns,
SI.inequality_columns,
SI.execution_count ORDER BY SI.Impact DESC ) AS RowNum
FROM #MissingIdxSuperInfo SI
INNER JOIN #top20 t
ON t.plan_handle = SI.plan_handle
)
SELECT fs.* ,
MII.query_plan ,
MII.sql_text AS sql_text_inExecplan ,
MII.STATEMENT AS DB_Schema_Obj ,
sub.Name ,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( PARTITION BY fs.plan_handle, sub.Name ORDER BY sub.Name ) AS InnerRowNum ,
( SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats s
WHERE s.query_hash = sub.query_hash
) AS SimilarQueries ,
( SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats s
WHERE s.query_plan_hash = sub.query_plan_hash
) AS SimilarQueryPlans ,
( SELECT COUNT(qs.query_hash)
FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats qs
WHERE qs.sql_handle = MII.sql_handle
GROUP BY qs.sql_handle
) AS QueriesRelatedtoPlan ,
( SELECT REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(CONVERT
(NVARCHAR(MAX), N'--' + NCHAR(13) + NCHAR(10) + ist.TEXT
+ NCHAR(13)
+ NCHAR(10)
+ N'--' COLLATE Latin1_General_Bin2),
NCHAR(31), N'?'),
NCHAR(30), N'?'),
NCHAR(29), N'?'),
NCHAR(28), N'?'),
NCHAR(27), N'?'),
NCHAR(26), N'?'),
NCHAR(25), N'?'),
NCHAR(24), N'?'),
NCHAR(23), N'?'),
NCHAR(22), N'?'),
NCHAR(21), N'?'),
NCHAR(20), N'?'),
NCHAR(19), N'?'),
NCHAR(18), N'?'),
NCHAR(17), N'?'),
NCHAR(16), N'?'),
NCHAR(15), N'?'),
NCHAR(14), N'?'),
NCHAR(12), N'?'),
NCHAR(11), N'?'),
NCHAR(8), N'?'),
NCHAR(7), N'?'),
NCHAR(6), N'?'),
NCHAR(5), N'?'),
NCHAR(4), N'?'),
NCHAR(3), N'?'),
NCHAR(2), N'?'), NCHAR(1),
N'?'), NCHAR(0), N'') AS [processing-instruction(query)]
FROM sys.dm_exec_sql_text(fs.sql_handle) AS ist
FOR
XML PATH('') ,
TYPE
) AS QueryDef ,
cp.objtype
INTO #finalsel
FROM finalsel fs
INNER JOIN #MissingIndexInfo MII
ON fs.database_id = MII.database_id
AND fs.OBJECT_ID = MII.OBJECT_ID
AND fs.plan_handle = MII.plan_handle
INNER JOIN sys.dm_exec_cached_plans cp
ON fs.plan_handle = cp.plan_handle
CROSS APPLY ( SELECT TOP 1
ISNULL(p.name, 'ADHOC') AS Name ,
query_hash ,
query_plan_hash
FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats qs
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(qs.sql_handle)
AS qt
LEFT OUTER JOIN sys.procedures p
ON qt.objectid = p.OBJECT_ID
WHERE qs.plan_handle = fs.plan_handle
) sub
WHERE RowNum = 1;
SELECT fls.database_id,fls.OBJECT_ID,fls.DB_Schema_Obj,fls.Name,fls.objtype,fls.execution_count
,fls.equality_columns,fls.inequality_columns,fls.included_columns,fls.Impact,fls.unique_compiles
,fls.user_seeks,fls.avg_total_user_cost,fls.avg_user_impact,fls.last_user_seek
,fls.query_plan,fls.sql_text_inExecplan,fls.QueryDef
,fls.SimilarQueries,fls.SimilarQueryPlans,fls.QueriesRelatedtoPlan
FROM #finalsel AS fls
WHERE InnerRowNum = 1
ORDER BY Impact DESC;
DROP TABLE #MissingIndexInfo;
DROP TABLE #MissingIdxSuperInfo;
DROP TABLE #top20;
DROP TABLE #finalsel;As has been the case in the past, this is not the end query. I have a backlog of updates I want to make to the query and try to create something even more useful from it.
As a bit of fair caution, just because an index shows up as a recommended implementation from this script, it does not mean you should blanket implement it. Also, like the previous script, the higher the impact value, the more probable the index will have a positive impact on your system.
In addition to the impact, I also look at the “Similar Queries” and “Similar Plans” numbers from the result set. These values can sometimes lead to an understanding that their are other queries or other plans that could also benefit from the creation of the index. Your mileage may vary.
Download script Missing_Index.
