Tis The Season to be Giving...#SQLFamily
Indeed the Holiday Season is traditionally a season of giving, and being charitable to those who are less fortunate. Although giving...
2011-12-23
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Blog Posts
2011 What A Great Year
What A Diffrince A Year Makes
In January I posted up my new years list basically, stuff I wanted to learn in...
2011-12-22
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A SQL Server Christmas Card
Merry Christmas everyone!
DECLARE @hohoho char(100)
DECLARE @bells smallint
DECLARE @tiers smallint
DECLARE @maxtiers smallint
SELECT @hohoho = ' ', @tiers = 1, @bells = 1, @maxtiers = 6
PRINT @hohoho
WHILE @tiers...
2011-12-22
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CONCAT() string function–SQL Server 2012
As the name indicates, CONCAT() will concatenate two or more strings. This is one of the two string functions introduced in...
2011-12-22 (first published: 2011-12-19)
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How many calls – A T-SQL Question
I got a call from a friend recently that was looking for some query help. He was actually using Access,...
2011-12-22
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PASS Summit 2011 Eval Results
My presentation on Professional Development Plans ended up being ranked 47th out of 190, with an overall score of 4.63....
2011-12-22
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SQL Server Sample Databases - All Versions
Many of you DBAs DB Devs and BI Devs in these days can have some changes from one SQL Server...
2011-12-22
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The #Meme15 Round-Up
The first round of #meme15 has finished. In total, there were eighteen people that participated. If there were more, I...
2011-12-22
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ETL from Oracle to SQL Server
I was recently asked to provide some performance tuning recommendations for an ETL process that extracts data from Oracle using...
2011-12-21
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Explaining SQLSaturday
I wrote a while back about my coffee cup from SQLSaturday #100. I took it to work (where I usually...
2011-12-21
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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