SQL Tuning Advisor (STA) recommends indexes that already exists?
851356Jul 29 2011 — edited Aug 5 2011I have enabled the STA to run twice a week, while we are going live with a new application in a new database. I want to insure we have good performance as the load goes up. I was not involved in the original design, which there not not much of, I've discovered. Since we are licensed for it, it seemed like a safe thing to turn on.
The STA ran last night and the report tells me it looked at 736 SQLs with findings, 143 without findings, and skipped 0.
What puzzles me is that, in the "Statistics Finding Summary", it's reporting stale stats on some tables which I know are up to date, as I ran stats on them yesterday and there were no updates to them.
Worse, in the "Index Finding Summary", it reports indexes needed that already do, in fact, exist.
Is there some reason for this? Is there some way to get the STA to be aware of these and avoid the erroneous findings so that I can concentrate on real ones?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
PDP