tSQLt Course
In the last half of 2017, I decided to run a tSQLt course and went down the route of putting...
2018-02-06
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Blog Posts
Forensic Analysis of Log files in SQL Server
The Importance of Log Files in SQL Server
On the SQL server every day we perform many transactions and as we...
2018-02-05
3,440 reads
Giving back – Speaking Mentors
I’ve been incredibly lucky in my career. I’ve somehow managed to meet and become friends with highly talented people who...
2018-02-05
336 reads
How to write a PowerShell function to use Confirm, Verbose and WhatIf
In my last blog post I showed how to run a script with the WhatIf parameter. This assumes that the...
2018-02-05 (first published: 2018-01-25)
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Learning Goals–January Review
In December I participated in T-SQL Tuesday #97 and wrote a post about 2018 goals. I promptly spent two weeks...
2018-02-05
398 reads
PASS Summit 2017 Wrap-Up - The People!
I need a new social media profile picture.
That’s one of the most important (non-technical) conclusions I drew from my week at PASS Summit 2017. It seemed like everywhere I...
2018-02-05
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SQL Homework – February 2018 – Work with security
This month let’s create some security!
Create logins: GUI 5 pts/Script 5 pts
Create a SQL login and a Windows authenticated login....
2018-02-05
309 reads
Will GDPR cause a “Database Run”?
What is GDPR, everyone’s (current) favorite acronym? It stands for “General Data Protection Regulation” and is an act / law / set...
2018-02-05 (first published: 2018-01-23)
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Power BI with Azure Data Lake - where the water doesn't run dry
(2018-Feb-04) I've had a case working with very large data files as a source for my heat map visualizations in...
2018-02-04
722 reads
Re-Imagining an SSIS IDE
Re-Imagining the SSIS development environment.
oooh:
ahhh:
SSIS is a powerful and versatile tool for extracting, transforming and loading data into or out of SQL Server. The development environment, BIDS...
2018-02-04
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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