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Drop All Redundant Indexes In Every Database All At Once

Redundant indexes in SQL Server are a phenomenon that is more common than I’d like to admit. I see it in quite a lot of shops. Meaning, that there’s still a significant target audience for this blog post!

This article published by Brent Ozar is very informative about redundant/duplicate indexes, what they mean, why they’re bad, and what should be done with them.

Also, a few years ago, Guy Glantser published a post about dropping redundant indexes. It’s very useful for finding all redundant indexes within all tables in a specific database.

But what both of these articles are missing – is the ability to easily generate Drop/Disable commands for these redundant indexes.

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