The Index Maintenance Cost Report shows the estimated cost of maintaining recommended indexes for a particular recommendation ID on a workload. This report contains a row for every SQL statement and recommended index combination where maintenance costs are required for the index.
Note: This is not applicable for Partition Analysis.
This report is created after a workload is analyzed.
The following table describes the information provided in the report.
Note: This report will not contain any rows if none of the recommended indexes require any maintenance cost.
Column Name |
Description |
Database Name |
Name of the database in which base table name is defined. |
Table Name |
The base table in the IndexRecommendations table on which the index is defined. |
QueryID |
The QueryID value of the SQL UPDATE statement. To view the corresponding workload statement, right-click on the QueryID. |
Index Type |
The type of recommended index. |
Maintenance Cost |
Estimated cost for updating the index structures. |
Index DDL |
The DDL statement text of the recommended index. |