Azure Data Explorer is a PaaS offering from Azure providing an end-to-end solution for data exploration. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/individually-great-collectively-unmatched-announcing-updates-to-3-great-azure-data-services/ Here is a quick introduction of the features: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/data-explorer/#features This service from...
2022-04-15 (first published: 2022-03-31)
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This blog post is based on my personal experience running an Azure Data Explorer (ADX) cluster. I was doing a presentation for Data Platform Summit in India, I spun...
2022-04-11 (first published: 2022-03-31)
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This blog pos illustrates how Azure Data Explorer and Azure Synapse Analytics complement each other for near real-time analytics and modern data warehousing use cases. This solution is already...
2022-03-31
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In the previous blog post we created an Azure Data Explorer (ADX) cluster. In this blog post we will create a database that we will ingest data into, as...
2022-03-31
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I have written a lot about the magic of KQL and the brilliance of Azure Data Explorer. Now we should create a cluster of our own that hosts Azure...
2022-03-31
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Basically when we are writing KQL we are asking the following questions: Does it exist? Where does it exist? Why does it exist? What shall we do with the...
2022-03-31
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This blog post is about another use of KQL that will definitely help your organisation and make you very popular. First of all check out this video here which...
2022-03-31
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This blog post demonstrates a hybrid end-to-end monitoring solution integrated with Microsoft Sentinel and Azure Monitor for ingesting streamed and batched logs from diverse sources, on-premises, or any cloud,...
2022-03-31
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This blog post is about how to quickly learn KQL. Kusto supports a subset of the SQL language. See the list of SQL known issues for the full list of unsupported...
2022-03-31
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In my pervious post I wrote about KQL queries that we will write – we also could use some free some samples that Microsoft put up for us to...
2022-03-31
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If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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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_CustomerEmail
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.CustomerContactAfter I do this, what will I see for the index status? See possible answers