SQL server encryption – Asymmetric Keys
In the previous blog we learnt about symmetric key encryption. We also learnt through an example how data is stored...
2015-10-10
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SQL server encryption – Certificates
In the previous blogs we saw how to encrypt data using symmetric and asymmetric keys. We saw how to use...
2015-10-10
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SQL server encryption – Symmetric Keys
In the previous blog we learnt about encryption and a brief about the SQL server option provided for data protection...
2015-10-10
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Fixing MSI errors during patching
Patching is an activity that is frequently performed by DBA’s. It is the responsibility of a DBA to keep the...
2015-09-29
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Table partitioning
What is partitioning.
To start with partition is the feature provided by SQL server in which very large tables are split...
2015-09-28
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Data Needed to Recover SQL server from a Host Crash
Am sure every DBA has once in his/her career come across a situation of recovering a database or an instance...
2015-09-12
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MOVING SYSTEM DATABASES
Below document provides information that can be used for moving system database. However this is not recommended for database installation...
2015-09-12
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SQL Join Algorithms
SQL queries implement various joins when datasets are to be retrieved from one/multiple tables and merged on a certain criteria...
2015-09-12
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What happens when you execute a query
When a query is submitted to SQL server it goes through several processing steps. A proper understanding of these steps...
2015-09-12
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Blogs
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
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Asynchronous Replication of Snapshots from an ActiveCluster Pod to a Third Array
I’ve been rebuilding my three-site SQL Server demo lab, and I ran into something...
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STRING_AGG DISTINCT
Has anyone written a wrapper function (or similar) around STRING_AGG() to allow the retrieval...
In-place OS upgrade or migration to new OS?
Putting this here as we're currently on SQL Server 2019 installed on Windows Server...
Never is Not the Policy
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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