its from Tim Chapman, one of the best index internal presentation
I will try to highlight the things he talk through this presentation
Indexes
- Clustered vs Non clustered and filtered indexes
- Non clustered indexes and include column effect on index structure
- Heap
- Heap vs Clustered
- Various DMV utilization to understand index internals
- How to detect fragmentation
- Logical fragmentation and effects on query perfromance
- Page splits , Page density, page fullness
Statistics
- How to view statistics
- Effect of statistics on query performance
- effect of stats from index rebuild and reorg
Log usage
- Index rebuild vs reorg
- Log usage for Index rebuilds and reorganize
Over all must watch