Analyzing Baby Names using Power BI
Me and my wife are contemplating names for our first baby we’re expecting in a couple of months! We don’t...
2015-06-16
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Samuel Vanga
Team-based Database Development: Playing Nice With Others
Here are the slides and links to awesome resources for my presentation, “Team-based Database Development: Playing Nice With Others”
If you...
2014-04-29
2,656 reads
Read Flat File Contents to Variable – Write Variable Value to Flat File
When working with SSIS, you’ll often find the need to read the contents of a flat file to a variable,...
2014-04-22 (first published: 2014-04-08)
7,578 reads
Presenting Biml and Team-based Development at PASSDC and BSSUG
I’m excited to present two different sessions in April at DC SQL Server User Group and at Baltimore SQL Server User Group. I...
2014-04-03
560 reads
Automate T-SQL Merge For Loading Dimensions
If you’re a data warehouse developer, chances are you use T-SQL Merge statement to process slowly changing dimensions. If you’ve...
2014-02-05
1,345 reads
Get Rid of These 5 T-SQL Bad Habits with SQL Prompt
We all have bad habits. Maybe we eat too many snacks, spend too much time on the couch watching TV,...
2014-01-21
603 reads
Standardize Table Aliases
What's wrong with the following code?
tsqlLine number Off | Hide | Select allSELECT a.[BusinessEntityID] , b.[FirstName] , b.[LastName]FROM[HumanResources].[Employee] a INNER JOIN [Person].[Person] b ON...
2013-03-05
790 reads
Standardize Table Aliases
What’s wrong with the following code?
SELECT
a.[BusinessEntityID]
, b.[FirstName]
, b.[LastName]
FROM [HumanResources].[Employee] a
INNER JOIN [Person].[Person] b
ON b.[BusinessEntityID] = a.[BusinessEntityID]Nothing – except for my...
2013-03-05
909 reads
Sparklines and Conditional Formating in SSRS
When creating a SSRS report, you want to add lines that display trends. You want to show trends for more...
2013-02-26
863 reads
Sparklines and Conditional Formating in SSRS
When creating a SSRS report, you want to add lines that display trends. You want to show trends for more...
2013-02-26
487 reads
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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