Well... I think I had had too much tea that morning ;-). But, as always, chatting with Richard and Greg was great. Here's the specific show link: http://www.runasradio.com/default.aspx?showNum=76. Oh, and just for the record, I didn't come up with that title. But, I do hope that all your [high-priority and important] ...

I first posted an update to sp_helpindex here. My version of sp_helpindex was solely to expand what sp_helpindex showed and adds 1 or 2 things based on version: for SQL2005+ it adds included columns and for SQL2008 it also adds the filter predicate. So, there were two versions of sp_helpindex2 depending on which verison ...

OK - so this has been frustrating me for many months... when you create indexes with included columns (which was a new feature of SQL Server 2005), they're not shown by sp_helpindex or by DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS. I understand this not showing for statistics because included columns are not factored into the histogram (that's only the high ...

I know that Paul and I recommended that you subscribe to Conor's blog... but have you? He's posted some great details on Partitioning (Part 1 and Part 2) as well as statistics and it always reminds me of how much I can learn from other people's perspectives! And, just to dove-tail on some of his statistics comments... ...