Storage Benchmarking with SQLIO Batch
The goal of the storage performance analysis is to identify the performance characteristics of a target storage device. To determine...
2015-02-10 (first published: 2015-02-03)
6,914 reads
Blog Posts
T-SQL – Query to get Distinct,Sorted, Comma Separated values in to a variable
CREATE TABLE #temp(name char(3))
INSERT INTO #temp VALUES ('CD')
,('AB')
,('LM')
,('BC')
,('GH')
,('KJ')
,('AB')
DECLARE @cols AS NVARCHAR(MAX);
SELECT @COLS = substring(list, 1, len(list) - 1)
FROM (SELECT list =
(SELECT DISTINCT...
2015-02-10 (first published: 2015-02-02)
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ExpressProfiler - new build published
Just published new signed build of ExpressProfiler - few nice improvements like advanced search, stay on top window, transparency - just to make...
2015-02-09
614 reads
Part 3 Adding Tab Controls – Create your own SQL tools with PowerShell and windows forms
Steve:
James recently published part 3 of his PowerShell and Windows Forms series for creating your own SQL Tools. In this...
2015-02-09 (first published: 2015-01-30)
8,495 reads
Uploading a Source Folder to Azure File Storage
Azure File Storage enables you to present an Azure Storage Account to your IaaS VMs as a share using SMB....
2015-02-09 (first published: 2015-02-01)
7,672 reads
Powershell to Robocopy files (say, to back up your computer to protect against CryptoWall trojan)
We were having a good time on DBAs@Midnight, when Sean got a weird pop up message that said all his...
2015-02-07
1,126 reads
Timed SQL Server tracing
Have you ever wanted to start a SQL trace (server-side trace!) from SQL agent and let it stop after X minutes...
2015-02-07
254 reads
2015 - the year of upgrade
2015 should be a very busy year for most DBAs, due to the end of support of SQL server 2005...
2015-02-06
325 reads
A quick email interview of Pass President Thomas LaRock
Back in December I had the thought that it would be fun to do an email interview with someone. As...
2015-02-06 (first published: 2015-01-28)
6,830 reads
Friday Followup For February 6, 2015
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2015-02-06
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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