Expanding My Reach
I am so thrilled to have the opportunity to expand my writing with my first Simple-Talk article posted. Simple- Talk is technical journal and...
2018-02-07
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Blog Posts
Help the fight against cancer
Tom Roush The SQL Family lost a much admired member to cancer last month, Tom Roush. In our little community,...
2018-02-07
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SQL Server in Kubernetes on Docker for Windows
Last week Docker announced a feature that I’ve been looking forward to for a while: –
And sure enough, when I...
2018-02-07
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Toolbox - Which Clerk Is Busy?
A few years ago I wrote what would turn out to be my most-hit blog post (so far) titled "Error...
2018-02-07
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UNDERCOVER TOOLBOX: Get Details of All Open Transactions
It was 3am in the morning and I was asleep and enjoying a delightful dream (I knew it was a...
2018-02-07
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What is Transparent Data Encryption?
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) was introduced in SQL 2008 as a way of protecting “at rest” data. It continues to...
2018-02-07 (first published: 2018-01-26)
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Where on Earth is the SQL Server Reporting Services Config Manager?
While we’re on the topic of SQL Server Reporting Services: WHYYYYYY is the Reporting Service Configuration Manager so hard to...
2018-02-07
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"How do I contribute to dbatools?" with Drew Furgiuele
Watch this week's video on YouTube
This weekend I caught up with Drew Furgiuele at SQL Saturday Cleveland and learned how to get involved with the open-source dbatools PowerShell module.
If...
2018-02-06
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“How do I contribute to dbatools?” with Drew Furgiuele
This weekend I caught up with Drew Furgiuele at SQL Saturday Cleveland and learned how to get involved with the...
2018-02-06
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Bug in SSMS V17.4
If you are using SSMS V17.4 as I am
You may encounter a weird error. This can be repeated as follows:
Open...
2018-02-06
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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
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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...
Forums
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