I\'m working on a project with a rather large Oracle database (although my question applies equally well to other databases). We have a web interface which allows users to
Sql server gives you some good tools that let you see which indexes are actually being used.
This article, http://www.mssqltips.com/tip.asp?tip=1239, gives you some queries that let you get a better insight into how much an index is used, as opposed to how much it is updated.