Comments on: Duplicate index checker improved http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/09/07/duplicate-index-checker-improved/ Stay curious! Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:07:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Peter Zaitsev http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/09/07/duplicate-index-checker-improved/#comment-1725 Peter Zaitsev Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:43:49 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=222#comment-1725 <p>One more idea I had but never had time to implement is finding unused indexes. This could be done as running EXPLAINs on the queries from the log (UPDATE/DELETE need to be modified) and list of indexes compared to total list of indexes. </p> <p>So you can see which indexes are used a lot which are used rarely and which are never used by this set of queries :)</p> One more idea I had but never had time to implement is finding unused indexes. This could be done as running EXPLAINs on the queries from the log (UPDATE/DELETE need to be modified) and list of indexes compared to total list of indexes.

So you can see which indexes are used a lot which are used rarely and which are never used by this set of queries :)

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