How do I merge a small part of a Git repo into another repo?
At my new day job, one of the things we want to do is migrate a portion of a really large Git repository (over 20GB) which I’ll call LargeRepo,...
2022-03-09
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Born SQL with Randolph West
Don’t change your default SQL Server port for security reasons
Since we’re on a recent theme of revising long-held best practices that are not, here’s a timely one for you: Don’t change your default SQL Server port for security...
2022-03-02
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The denial-of-service attack is coming from inside the house
A short post this week. While I was helping some friends recently, we experienced a curious thing where as soon as an application was started up, it was immediately...
2022-02-23
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Checking accessibility in your day-to-day work
Last year I wrote a series of posts about accessibility as it relates to presentations, and one aspect which I didn’t cover is within the documents themselves. We create...
2022-02-16
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Database Projects 101 in Azure Data Studio (Calgary Data User Group)
On Wednesday February 23rd, 2022, the Calgary Data User Group will be hosting our first user group session of the year, featuring Warwick Rudd. The topic is an introduction...
2022-02-09
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Don’t optimize for ad hoc workloads as a best practice
(This post was co-authored by Erik Darling.) The more things stay the same, the more they change… No, that’s not a mistake. In fact, it’s a reference to long-held...
2022-02-02
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Join me in Germany in June
I have been selected to speak at the DataGrillen conference later this year. I will be presenting my session How Does SQL Server Store That Data Type?, which I debuted during...
2022-01-26
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A new chapter begins
In 2012 when I originally founded Born SQL, I never imagined I would find myself a five-time recipient of the Microsoft Data Platform MVP award, let alone be offered...
2022-01-19
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SQL Server 2019 on Apple Silicon redux: it actually works
Last month I wrote a blog post suggesting that it was not possible to get SQL Server 2019 running on Apple Silicon. I hedged my statement by saying you...
2022-01-12
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One year later: my look back on the PASS organization
My good friend and talented singer Rob Volk reminded me recently that I had promised to write about my involvement with PASS at the end of its life, and I...
2022-01-05
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Blogs
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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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