What you'll learn from Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012 will help you understand what indexes are doing in the database and what can be done to mitigate and improve their effects on performance. The final destination is a guided tour through a number of real-world scenarios and approaches that can be taken to investigate, mitigate, and improve the performance of your database. • Defines indexes and provides an understanding of their role • Uncovers and explains the statistics that are kept in indexes • Teaches strategies and approaches for indexing databases