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Identifying missing FK indexes

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Why publishing this under SQL instead of RDBMS Server?

The necessaty to create supporting indexes for foreign keys has been explained in other articles.
However writing a foolproof query to identify missing FK indexes is not so straightforward as it might look. I used to do it PLSQL, but this has proven not to scale very well and taking quite some elapsed time and system resources in databases with many thousands of tables. The blog entry is about the challenge to get the job done with a well performing SQL statement.

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