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Are there any negative impacts to dropping unique (Unused) indexes from a Navision (2015) database?

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Our team have found that there are number of unique indexes has 0 read but more writes. What impact will this have on the system as a whole if we remove those specific types of indexing for our tables ?

Navision version 2015 

Example : Index usage : Reads: 0 Writes: 123,095

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    Inge M. Bruvik Profile Picture
    1,111 Moderator on at

    In general i would be careful about removing indexes unless you have a specific performance problem in a part of the system or when running specific procedures.

    And i would discuss each index in detail with someone that knows the system well.

    In general removing indexes will speed up write operations and slow down read operations.  So for table with few reads and many writes less indexes usually means better performance.

    And remember that in Business Central every index is unique because they all have primary key as the last fields of the index if you add them through the development enviornment.

    There are also indexes that might be used only during periodic activities. Those indexes will now show up in a day to day logging but removing them can have a huge impact when those periodic activities run.

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    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    95,729 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

    Hi, I agree with Inge. But we've tried rebuilding indexes when we've had major performance issues. This requires detailed testing and is not recommended for implementation in a production environment.

    More details: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/indexes/reorganize-and-rebuild-indexes?view=sql-server-ver16#rebuild-an-index

    Hope this helps as well.

    Thanks.

    ZHU

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