This tool lets you quickly and easily find out the status of your indexes and discover which databases need maintenance.
You can do maintenance through the UI, or generate a T-SQL script to run in SSMS.
SQL Index Manager – Free GUI Tool for Index Maintenance on SQL Server and Azure
- An incredibly fast describe engine
- Multiple databases scanning
- Advice on rebuilding or reorganizing
- Analysis of fragmentation results
- Configurable fragmentation thresholds
- One-click maintenance
- Command-line automation
- Automatic T-SQL script generation
- Columnstore maintenance support
- Statistics maintenance
- Collecting missing indexes
- Detect duplicate indexes
- Drop or disable unused indexes
- Index rebuild with compression options
- Export of scan results into Excel, CSV, HTML and text files
- Support for any editions of SQL Server 2008+ and Azure
- And a lot of other improvements :)
You can download .zip file with the latest build of the master branch from Releases
/connection "Data Source=HOMEPC\SQL_2017;Integrated Security=True;User ID=HOMEPC\PC"
This switch is used to specify connection string
/databases "AdventureWorks2017;AdventureWorks2012;msdb"
This switch is used to specify databases to manage indexes in
/connectiontimeout 30
This switch is used to specify connection timeout in seconds. Overrides value specified in the connection string
/commandtimeout 120
This switch is used to specify command execution timeout in seconds. Overrides default option (90 seconds)
/online
This switch is used to rebuild indexes with online option
/ignoreheap
This switch is used to ignore any heaps during maintenance
/ignorecolumnstore
This switch is used to ignore any columnstore indexes during maintenance
/ignorebtree
This switch is used to ignore any b-tree indexes during maintenance
/missingindex
Including missing indexes into regular maintenance
/maxdop 8
Configure the max degree of parallelism during maintenance. Overrides server option
/reorganizethreshold 15
Specifies reorganize the fragmentation threshold in %. Overrides default option (15%)
/rebuildthreshold 30
Specifies rebuild the fragmentation threshold in %. Overrides default option (30%)
/minindexsize 32
This switch is used to specify the minimum index size in MB. Overrides global option (6 MB)
/predescribesize 128
This switch is used to specify the predescribe index size in MB. Overrides global option (256 MB)
/maxindexsize 8096
This switch is used to specify the maximun index size in MB. Overrides global option (8 GB)