It's Dangerous to ISNUMERIC, Take This Try_Convert
There's an issue with some characters in T-SQL when validating numeric values out of raw varchar fields, and it can...
2013-12-17 (first published: 2013-12-12)
5,746 reads
Will Assaf
Upcoming Special Events for the Baton Rouge SQL Server User Groups
I'm happy to announce a big slate of upcoming events for Baton Rouge User Groups and especially the SQL Server...
2013-12-03
642 reads
Speaker Idol Competition at the Hammond .NET User Group
Here's the link to download the sample scripts and meme-tastic slidedeck from my presentation "SQL Server Indexes in Your Ill-Begotten...
2013-11-20
534 reads
Potential Backup Software Issues with Read-Only Databases in FULL Recovery
If you decide to park a database in read-only mode for a long period of time, go ahead and alter...
2013-11-13 (first published: 2013-11-05)
2,030 reads
PowerShell: Delete Unneeded Rows/Columns In Excel
I had a project to automate the import of a large number of excel files via SSIS into SQL 2012....
2013-11-08 (first published: 2013-11-01)
7,001 reads
SQL Saturday #255 Dallas 2013 - SQL Server Permissions and Security Principals
500+ IT pros at UT-Arlington this weekend for SQL Saturday #255 Dallas!
Notes from today:
A big shout-out to SQLSat Dallas organizer...
2013-11-03
714 reads
SQL Server Configuration Manager (sqlserverManager11.msc) Hidden after Windows 8.1 Upgrade
You may have noticed, like I did, that after upgrading-in-place from Windows 8 Enterprise to Windows 8.1 Enterprise, my local...
2013-10-22
7,265 reads
"SQL Server: Bolts to Buzzwords" presentation for the Hammond .NET User Group at Southeastern Louisiana University
One of my favorite groups to speak for (aside from the Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group) is the Hammond...
2013-10-17
435 reads
Houston Tech Fest 2013 - SQL Admin Best Practices with DMV's
Here is the downloadable file with all my sample scripts and slidedeck from my SQL Admin Best Practices with DMV's presentation from...
2013-09-28
1,046 reads
Actual Emails: TL;DR: Stop using varchar(max)
Wrote this email recently to a crew of developers who were shooting themselves in the foot with a database rich...
2013-09-05 (first published: 2013-09-03)
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Blogs
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Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
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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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Two queries work until compared with EXCEPT statement
I've got multiple databases on 2 SQL 2019 CU32 servers , all using the...
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...
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