A New Chapter: Why I Made the Move from Dayforce to ESO
A New Chapter: Why I Made the Move from Dayforce to ESO Over the past several weeks, many of you have probably noticed subtle hints throughout my blog. A...
2026-07-14
32 reads
A New Chapter: Why I Made the Move from Dayforce to ESO Over the past several weeks, many of you have probably noticed subtle hints throughout my blog. A...
2026-07-14
32 reads
How Do You Determine How Much Disk Space You Need If You’re Handed 18 SQL Server Backups and No History? Happy last day of June, dear reader. Today’s post...
2026-06-30
6 reads
One of the first things I review when I inherit a new SQL Server environment is the SQL Agent jobs. I can learn a tremendous amount about an organization...
2026-07-01 (first published: 2026-06-16)
519 reads
This is it. The final chapter of PowerShell Strikes Back. Over the past four weeks, you’ve built a real foundation. You know that single quotes are literal and double...
2026-06-15 (first published: 2026-05-26)
510 reads
Welcome back to PowerShell Strikes Back. We’re three weeks in, and the training is paying off. In Week 1, we learned that quotes are not interchangeable. In Week 2,...
2026-06-03 (first published: 2026-05-18)
505 reads
This is Week 2 of PowerShell Strikes Back – a four-week May series for SQL Server DBAs who have dabbled in PowerShell but never stopped to nail down the...
2026-05-27 (first published: 2026-05-11)
650 reads
This is Week 1 of PowerShell Strikes Back – a four-week May series for SQL Server DBAs who have dabbled in PowerShell but never stopped to nail down the...
2026-05-20 (first published: 2026-05-04)
487 reads
If you’ve been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server, PowerShell, and the day-to-day work of being a DBA. Execution plans, availability groups, dbatools scripts...
2026-05-13 (first published: 2026-04-28)
458 reads
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application, and when you open SSMS to investigate, the connection spinner just keeps spinning. SQL Server...
2026-05-04 (first published: 2026-04-22)
448 reads
Hello, dear blog reader. Today’s post is coming to you straight from the home office, ready to talk about a topic that comes up more than you’d think: storing...
2026-04-22 (first published: 2026-04-14)
588 reads
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
I’ve been rebuilding my three-site SQL Server demo lab, and I ran into something...
By SQLPals
SQL Server gMSA: Why DBAs Still Aren't Using It in 2026 ...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Never is Not the Policy
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Automating SSAS Multidimensional Security Audits...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item 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