System-versioned ledger tables: things you can’t do
This is the third post in the series about system-versioned ledger tables, a new feature introduced in Azure SQL Database. You can read Part 1 and Part 2 if...
2021-10-13
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This is the third post in the series about system-versioned ledger tables, a new feature introduced in Azure SQL Database. You can read Part 1 and Part 2 if...
2021-10-13
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I’ve had the privilege of presenting all over the world about temporal tables in SQL Server including the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. The theme of the...
2021-10-06
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In the first post of this series, we learned about a new type of system-versioned table that also works at the database level and introduces a mechanism that demonstrates...
2021-09-29
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Choosing the right typeface for your presentation (or for that matter anything you create that contains words) is fraught. In a previous post I wrote about the difference between...
2021-09-22
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As long-time readers of this blog know, I’m a big fan of temporal tables, also known as system-versioned temporal tables. Until recently, temporal tables were synonymous with system-versioned tables,...
2021-09-15
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Right off the top here, I must note that the term “dead man’s switch” is archaic, so for the rest of this post I’ll refer to it as “operator...
2021-09-08
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I have previously written about accessibility in video captions, presentation slides, and disabilities, and I thought I should expand on the latter topic as it relates to typefaces, or...
2021-09-01
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During routine maintenance on a customer’s production server, I discovered that they have one table consuming 40% of the storage in their database. That table contains just under 10...
2021-08-25
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I may be completely off base here, but I’ve noticed a correlation between folks who use Amazon Web Services and their understanding that once you scale up a service...
2021-08-18
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This coming Friday the 13th (August 2021) is the first ever Dativerse virtual conference, hosted by our DataGrillen friends William and Benjamin. According to their site: We try to...
2021-08-11
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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...
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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