TRY_CONVERT broken by WITH SCHEMABINDING in SQL Server 2012 Data Tools build
Here's a bug you might find if attempting to schemabind an object that uses the new TRY_CONVERT function.
To reproduce, run...
2013-03-21
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Will Assaf
Conversation History: The Continuing Case Against GUIDs
We had a cooperative relational database design exercise at the office last week as part of our regular department "Lunch...
2013-03-08
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YYYYMM Math
I had a project recently where I had to do math on a number that represented a date, YYYYMM.
For example,...
2013-03-01
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"An item with the same key has already been added."
In SQL Server Reporting Services, when adding a new dataset to a report, you may see an error that looks...
2013-02-28
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Script Out Foreign Keys With Multiple Keys
It's easy enough to use sys.foreign_keys and sys.foreign_key_columns to identify foreign keys. But what if you want to script out your foreign...
2013-02-18
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Using Foreign Keys to Determine Table Insertion Order
Here's a script to determine, based on your database's foreign key relationships, what the insertion order would be for, say,...
2013-02-17
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Adding the Clustered Key To Your Nonclustered Index? Part 2
Of course, a rather obvious answer presents itself the next day. After reviewing the actual environment that my colleague was...
2013-02-05
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Adding the Clustered Key To Your Nonclustered Index?
A colleague of mine was understandably confused when using the almost-perfect missing index engine in SQL 2008. The engine recommended he include...
2013-02-04
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Try a Database Design Exercise At Your Next SQL User Group
Tried something different for the January 2013 meeting of the Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group (brssug.org), which meets every...
2013-01-10
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Management Studio Database Diagram Owners
If you're working in an environment as a developer without sysadmin privileges, and you are creating database diagrams using Management Studio...
2012-12-10 (first published: 2012-12-03)
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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