My Top 5 for 2011
I have seen a few recap posts bouncing around the net and started thinking about my own blog. So out...
2011-12-28
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Blog Posts
PASS Election Results
The 2011 Election results were just posted, congratulations to Adam Jorgensen, Denise McInerney, and Rob Farley for taking the top...
2011-12-28
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Q.How Many Weeks in the Year? A.It depends
ISOWEEK 52 Weeks in the Year
Stardate 12:20:2011 Week 51 SSC.Com Web Blog, Planet Earth. With only approximately two weeks left...
2011-12-28 (first published: 2011-12-20)
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Retrieving position() value of node by using XQuery alone
You can only use the position() function within an xquery predicate and can't use it to return the position value...
2011-12-28
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SQL Server – Row count for all views / tables
Getting row count for all tables in a database is straight forward. You can display row count for all tables...
2011-12-28
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SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Master Data Services
SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) has a number of enhancements in SQL Server 2012:
Improved web user interface – If you...
2011-12-28
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What’s new in SQL Server RC0 setup
Datacentre Edition is no longer available as a MS SQL Server 2012 RC0 candidate, Read MoreMS SQL Server 2012 RC0...
2011-12-28
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Wrapping Up 2011 and a Blog Break
I’m writing this on December 17th, thinking back on 2011, and it has been a good year. Not always simple...
2011-12-28
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In 2012, It’s Me and Vanilla Ice
Like many others, I’m planning a few changes for my life for next year. I’m a believer in finding one’s...
2011-12-27
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PASS Update #69 (The Wrap Up)
Next week marks the end of my third and final year serving on the PASS Board of Directors. I’ve struggled...
2011-12-27
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Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
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...
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