Collector (every 6 h, metadata and DMVs only, no scans): index inventory
with usage and forwarded fetches, missing-index suggestions, statistics
modifications via sysindexes.rowmodctr (needs only metadata visibility).
Rules:
- SQLI-IDX-001 missing index, evaluated against existing indexes:
extends an index with the same keys instead of adding one; notes on
write-heavy tables, many indexes, wide includes, short uptime
- SQLI-IDX-002 unused index (needs 7 days of uptime; suggests DISABLE)
- SQLI-IDX-003 duplicate or covered index (filters, uniqueness respected)
- SQLI-IDX-004 heap with forwarded records
- SQLI-STAT-001 stale statistics, SQLI-STAT-002 auto statistics off
Column lists use U+E000 as separator: FOR XML cannot serialize NCHAR(1).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E3EExwndy8Z22EK2Qpt6BK