Parsing Windows event logs with PowerShell
Lately I’ve been toying with the idea of using PowerShell to parse the Windows event logs and possibly adding that...
2012-09-20
7,531 reads
Colleen M. Morrow
SQLSaturday #160 – Get your SQL learn on in Kalamazoo
If you’re planning on being in the Kalamazoo, MI area this weekend, or just feel like taking a road trip,...
2012-09-17
748 reads
SQLSaturday #171, Pittsburgh
Date: October 6, 2012
Title: Searching for the Holy Grail of DDL Auditing
Abstract:
Who altered this view and how? When was that...
2012-09-16
692 reads
SQL Audit 302 – Deploying the Audit Solution with Powershell
This is it, ladies and gentlemen. One last post and I promise I won’t mention the word audit for at...
2012-08-29
2,646 reads
SQL Audit 301 – Using Powershell to Manage Audits
Today we’re going to go over some very basic scripts to create, drop, and copy SQL Audit objects using Powershell...
2012-08-20 (first published: 2012-08-13)
3,223 reads
SQLSaturday #164 – Cleveland – Touchdown!!
SQLSaturday #164 is in the books and the months of work and planning that went into putting this event together...
2012-08-20
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2012-08-16
811 reads
SQLSaturday #160, Kalamazoo
Date: September 22, 2012
Title: So I started this blog…now what?
Abstract:
Ever thought about trying your hand at blogging? Or maybe you’ve...
2012-08-08
598 reads
SQL Audit 201 – Creating an Audit Solution
Welcome back, folks!
Ok so, now that we’ve covered the basics of creating a SQL Audit and viewing the output, let’s...
2012-08-06 (first published: 2012-07-31)
6,737 reads
SQL Audit 102 – Reading audit output
Last time we went over the basics of creating a SQL Audit. Now obviously once you’ve gotten your audit in...
2012-07-19 (first published: 2012-07-16)
3,248 reads
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Question of the Day
Rebuilding All Indexes
I have added a few indexes to one of my tables in SQL Server 2025:
ALTER TABLE dbo.CustomerContact
ADD CONSTRAINT PK_CustomerContact
PRIMARY KEY (CustomerID);
-- Create index on CustomerEmail
CREATE INDEX IX_CustomerContact_CustomerEmail
ON dbo.CustomerContact (CustomerEmail);
CREATE INDEX IX_CustomerContact_CustomerPhone
ON dbo.CustomerContact (phone);
I then do this to disable one index:
alter index IX_CustomerContact_CustomerPhone on dbo.CustomerContact disableI see this when I check the index status:
I decide to rebuild all indexes with this command:
ALTER INDEX ALL ON dbo.CustomerContact rebuildAfter I do this, what will I see for the index status? See possible answers