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How does order of index affect performance in SQL Server?

I am wondering how does order of index affect performance (ASC, DESC) ? If it affects, why ? And which order should I choose ?
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Optimizing an audit table for inserts and deletes

I'm trying to identify the best way to design a table for audit purposes. Basically I log several last events for many users in one table. There's a limit on the number of records for each user. The ...
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Performance tuning a cascading delete with many foreign keys

I have a delete query that is taking a long time. Looking at the execution plan, I see that most of the estimated cost in the delete query is in a section of the data model that had a lot of data ...
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sql server instance using maximum cpu usage [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: sql server instance using maximum cpu usage I have a SQL server 2005 instance installed on the server machine with two vm Server Specification are Processor: Xeon Ram ...
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SQL Server Database Engine Tuning Advisor vs DMV queries

What is the best way to tune the indexes on my production database? I normally use the following query : SELECT user_seeks * avg_total_user_cost * (avg_user_impact * 0.01) AS [index_advantage], ...
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In-memory SQL Server log file

I have a SQL Server instance that is used solely for the purpose of reporting and also for preparing data to be loaded into Analysis Services. Its data comes from another SQL Server instance which is ...
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Where can I find guidelines for building a SQL Server machine specifically for DBCC CHECKDB work?

I'm working on defining specs for a new server to run DBCC CHECKDB scans on all databases in our portfolio (85 instances, 1300 DBs, 15 TB allocated). I have a custom application that copies dump files ...