SQL Server Virtualization for VM Admins – SQL Saturday Madison Precon
I am pleased to announce a brand new pre-conference training session, entitled “SQL Server Virtualization for VM Admins“, to be...
2015-03-13
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Blog Posts
Why You Shouldn’t Skip the Infrastructure/Security Architecture Review
It’s not usual for development projects to undergo an architecture review, but too many times these reviews consist only of...
2015-03-13 (first published: 2015-03-09)
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Allowing a User to Create Objects in a Schema
I was testing something the other day and realized this was a security area I didn’t completely understand. I decided...
2015-03-12
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Altering a Column with NOT NULL
A short piece, as I ran into the need recently to alter a column to NOT NULL status. I’ve rarely...
2015-03-12
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Future of Database Mirroring
One of the beloved feature of SQL server standard edition for HA is database mirroring, since you only have 2-node...
2015-03-12
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Operational Data Store (ODS) Defined
I see a lot of confusion on what exactly is an Operational Data Store (ODS). While it can mean different...
2015-03-12 (first published: 2015-02-26)
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SQL backup directly to Azure storage
Most companies required to keep their database backup offsite (on tape) for many years due to audit requirement. This normally...
2015-03-12
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Audit Schema Change Report
In a recent article on SSG, I discussed how to use Extended Events to function in a Profiler like fashion. You can read about that here. I recommend reading...
2015-03-11
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Data Compression–A unique feature PART–II TIP #92
In last post TIP #91 we talked about What is Data compression ? What are the features ? Now in this tip...
2015-03-11
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Dynamic Data Masking
Dynamic Data MaskingFEBRUARY 26, 2015
Have you ever wanted to only show parts of a field to certain sets of users...
2015-03-11 (first published: 2015-02-26)
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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