A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, determine performance data for query optimization of a query directed to a database table having multiple partitions. The performance data for the query optimization is presented in a user interface, and an option is provided in the user interface to create a non-spanning index for any of the partitions mentioned in the performance data. In various embodiments, determining the performance data may include: determining the partitions that were unexpanded by the query optimization, determining the partitions that had a runtime estimate that was different from an actual query runtime by a threshold, determining whether any of the partitions had expansion forced by a client request, determining whether the query performed partition elimination, determining whether any of the partitions has an associated index that is unused by the query and that also has a key that is not present in all of the partitions, and determining a constraint for partition elimination.