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Like anything in life, indexes require maintenance. Over time, the performance benefits of indexes can wane or, through data modifications, their sizes and the underlying statistics can bloat. To prevent these issues, indexes must be maintained. If you do so, your database will remain a lean, mean querying machines.
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Strate, J., Fritchey, G. (2015). Index Maintenance. In: Expert Performance Indexing in SQL Server. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1118-2_9
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