Impact Series – Part 2
It’s that time again to add another impact player to the roster; this time for the month of February.
This month...
2015-02-27
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Blog Posts
SQLSaturday Phoenix
This weekend, I’m flying to Phoenix to be a part of SQLSaturday there. I will present two new sessions on...
2015-02-27
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tSQLt – SQLCop – Checking Naming Conventions
I’ve been using tSQLt a bit to do some testing and one of the things I’ve tested is standards for...
2015-02-27 (first published: 2015-02-12)
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Dynamic Data Masking
Dynamic Data Masking
FEBRUARY 26, 2015
Have you ever wanted to only show parts of a field to certain sets of users such as credit card numbers, telephone numbers or last...
2015-02-26
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Gimme A Break! Taking Mental Health Days - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 3 minutes Burnout! You have been stressing over the big project you have...
The post Gimme A Break! Taking...
2015-02-26
1,714 reads
How to do DevOps as a SQL Server DBA
You recognize that you need to provide a pipeline for database deployments, that you need to automate as much support...
2015-02-26
1,460 reads
My Upcoming Speaking Engagements
March 4 – Charleston PASS, Charleston, SC
What Admins Absolutely Must Know About SQL Server Security
There are so many security tips out...
2015-02-26
966 reads
My Upcoming Speaking Engagements
March 4 – Charleston PASS, Charleston, SC
What Admins Absolutely Must Know About SQL Server Security
There are so many security tips out...
2015-02-26
670 reads
Tales of a DBA fed up with NOLOCK. Part 1
Nov 12, 2014
Dear Diary,
They asked for help again. Every now and again everything slows down and they see a lot...
2015-02-26 (first published: 2015-02-16)
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Parsing SQL Saturday Data – Getting Titles from the XML document
I’m continuing on with my project to grab SQL Saturday data and automatically insert it into a SQL Server database....
2015-02-25
1,441 reads
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