Creating and Using Failover Groups in Azure DBaaS – Part 1
Introduction
Hello everybody! Welcome back! One of my favorite features in Azure SQL DBaaS is Failover Groups. I have been working...
2017-12-22
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Blog Posts
Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports Part 4: The Squint Test
Data visualization should be iterative. You should get a good initial draft put together and then check to make sure...
2017-12-22
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Is the traditional data warehouse dead?
There have been a number of enhancements to Hadoop recently when it comes to fast interactive querying with such products...
2017-12-22
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Is the traditional data warehouse dead?
There have been a number of enhancements to Hadoop recently when it comes to fast interactive querying with such products...
2017-12-22
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Live on Channel 9 with ReadyRoll
I was interviewed in Redmond a couple months ago and the video was just published. I show and demo some...
2017-12-22 (first published: 2017-12-07)
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More Beginner / Fundamentals Content
Not surprisingly, there are folks who want beginner / fundamentals presentations and blog posts.
I put up the poll based on a...
2017-12-22 (first published: 2017-12-05)
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Using SQL Server Management Studio Projects
One of the most underutilized assets in SQL Server Management Studio is the SSMS project. Within Management Studio, one can...
2017-12-22
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A Business Lesson from an Oil Change
When I first moved to the city where I now live, I found an oil change place just a couple...
2017-12-21
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How to Get Estimated Completion Time of SQL Server Database Backup OR Restore
“How much time SQL Server is going to take to complete the database Backup or Restore” – This is one of...
2017-12-21 (first published: 2017-12-09)
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SSRS won’t bind HTTPS to new certificate — “We are unable to create the certificate binding”
This blog post is around the situation where you have SSRS setup to use HTTPS and thus using a certificate...
2017-12-21 (first published: 2017-12-11)
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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
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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...
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STRING_AGG DISTINCT
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In-place OS upgrade or migration to new OS?
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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