I’m considering dropping an index from a table in a SQL Server 2005 instance. Is there a way that I can see which stored procedures might have statements that are dependent on that index?
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I’m considering dropping an index from a table in a SQL Server 2005 instance. Is there a way that I can see which stored procedures might have statements that are dependent on that index?
Nope. For one thing, index selection is dynamic – the indexes aren’t selected until the query executes.
Barring ‘HINT’, but let’s not go there.