Building Debug Symbols – Troubleshooting symbol building
Recently,I have been working with the Debugger Symbols for SQL Server to generate call stacks and learn more about the internals of SQL Server. I approached one of...
2015-01-01
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Blog Posts
How to insert value in Identity column ? TIP #80
Happy new year 2015 .
Suppose you have a source table and one destination table (Which is exact replica of source...
2015-01-01
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I’m an MVP: now what?
Today when I checked my mailbox I found an amazing surprise: I joined the ranks of the Most Valuable Professionals...
2015-01-01
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Powershell – Copy the Latest Backup
I got an email recently where someone asked me how they can refresh a dev environment with Powershell. I guess...
2015-01-01 (first published: 2014-12-29)
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Tracing call stacks in SQL Server – Installing the Debugging Tools for Windows (WinDbg) on Windows 8.1 and generating debug symbols for SQL Server binaries
Where to get the debugger tools
To generate the needed symbols you will need the “Standalone Debugging Tools for Windows (WinDbg)” download here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/hh852365
How to...
2015-01-01
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Tracing call stacks in SQL Server – Installing the Debugging Tools for Windows (WinDbg) on Windows 8.1 and generating debug symbols for SQL Server binaries
Where to get the debugger tools To generate the needed symbols you will need the “Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 10” download here: https://dev.windows.com/en-us/downloads/windows-10-sdk and click “Download the standalone SDK” ...
2015-01-01
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[SQL Snacks Video] Performance Tuning 103 – T-Logs and VLFs
Finally the arrival of Part 3 of my SQL Snack Pack on Performance Tuning! The series is dedicated to help beginners understand...
2014-12-31
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2014 – A year in review.
TweetG’day,
And so another year passes, and as I’ve never wrote a “year in review” post before now seems like a...
2014-12-31
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2014 – One more Year with you
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million...
2014-12-31
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2014 – One more Year with you
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed...
2014-12-31
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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...
SQL Server gMSA: Why So Many DBAs Still Aren't Using It in 2026
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Rebuilding All Indexes
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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_CustomerEmail
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.CustomerContactAfter I do this, what will I see for the index status? See possible answers