Index Consultant

You must have DBA or PROFILE authority to run the Index Consultant.

The selection of a proper set of indexes can improve the database performance. The SQL Anywhere Index Consultant helps you select indexes by providing recommendations n the best set of indexes for your database.

You can run the Index Consultant against a single query using Interactive SQL, or against the database using Application Profiling mode in Sybase Central. When analyzing a database, the Index Consultant uses a tracing session to gather data and make recommendations. It estimates query execution costs using those indexes to see which indexes lead to improved execution plans. The Index Consultant evaluates multiple column indexes, single-column indexes, and investigates the impact of clustered or unclustered indexes.

The Index Consultant analyzes a database or single query by generating candidate indexes and determining their effect on performance. To explore the effect of different candidate indexes, the Index Consultant repeatedly re-optimizes the queries under different sets of indexes. It does not execute the queries.

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You can use Sybase Central to connect to a version 9 database server. However, the layout of windows in Sybase Central reverts to the version 9 layout, which does not include Application Profiling mode. Refer to your version 9 documentation for information about locating and using the Index Consultant in Sybase Central.

Index Consultant

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