Microsoft Releases Two Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2008
Sticking to their eight week release cycle, Microsoft has released two different Cumulative Updates (CU) for SQL Server 2008. The...
2011-09-20
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Blog Posts
Migrating to SQL Server from another Database platform
Migrating to SQL Server from another Database platform has a number of considerations
1) Create an inventory of existing applications. Separate into...
2011-09-20
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PASS Update #65 (Officers, September Meeting)
I wanted to start with a follow up to my last post about the officer elections and the concerns about...
2011-09-20
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Roman Numerals to integers, and Vice Versa, in SQL:
Here are a couple of functions to convert between roman numerals and integers. They are handy for all sorts of...
2011-09-20
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SSIS Variables and Expressions Webinar
Looks like it is that time again… for me to present a FREE webinar for good ol’ Pragmatic Works today...
2011-09-20
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Statistics in Execution Plans
I was presenting on execution plans when another question came up that I didn’t know the answer to immediately. Yes,...
2011-09-20
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Stored Procedures – Common Security Practice
In SQL Server a good practice is to access the data via calls through stored procedure. Have a look at...
2011-09-20
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Stored Procedures – Common Security Practice
In SQL Server a good practice is to access the data via calls through stored procedure. Have a look at the document available in that link. To further this...
2011-09-20
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The Barking Dog Analogy
The Barking Dog Analogy
Maggie and Woody
A discussion started today on Twitter about CXPacket waits. There had been a heated debate...
2011-09-20
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T-SQL Tuesday #22 Round-Up - Data Presentation
T-SQL Tuesday #22 is history, and I was pleased by the many posts and participants in this month’s September blog...
2011-09-20
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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...
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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