SWAG Saves the Day
PASS Summit East is in one week. I was on the road last week in the UK and then Houston for the Houston AI-lytics event. I had been a...
2026-04-30
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PASS Summit East is in one week. I was on the road last week in the UK and then Houston for the Houston AI-lytics event. I had been a...
2026-04-30
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So I jumped onto an LLM and asked it to give me some PL/SQL to handle a 3-step series of DML statements and out popped the following code: That...
2026-04-30
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I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep things clean and smooth in case I need to rebuild things, I’ve gone with containers....
2026-05-11 (first published: 2026-04-29)
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Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying the most expensive queries is crucial to optimize resource usage and improve overall system efficiency.
Step-by-Step...
2026-05-15 (first published: 2026-04-28)
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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)
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You may have already seen that thanks to Kris Rice, we now have a baseline set of Oracle skills available for your favourite AI tools. Check out the skills...
2026-04-28
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I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both as a consultant and now in my work at Everpure, and I see the same...
2026-05-11 (first published: 2026-04-27)
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I had a few random questions from my Running a Local LLM on Your Laptop session at the Houston AI-lytics 2026 event last week, so this post looks at...
2026-04-27
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For those entering the AI space whether professionally or personally I wanted to give a quick overview on the different models on offer within the Claude family – when...
2026-05-06 (first published: 2026-04-27)
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Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out with them. The slides with links...
2026-04-25
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By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
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...
Putting this here as we're currently on SQL Server 2019 installed on Windows Server...
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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