How to Troubleshoot a Runaway Transaction Log File
Part of being a DBA is dealing with transaction logs that grow uncontrolled for some reason. This often gets raised to the DBA in the form of a drive...
2026-01-13
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Part of being a DBA is dealing with transaction logs that grow uncontrolled for some reason. This often gets raised to the DBA in the form of a drive...
2026-01-13
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If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to boost memory or I/O, you had to scale the whole instance, paying for extra CPU...
2026-01-26 (first published: 2026-01-12)
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Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have been working with data for over thirty years. I think that just means I am...
2026-01-23 (first published: 2026-01-12)
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A customer was testing Redgate Data Modeler and complained that it auto-generated PK names. I had to test and discover if I could make things better, and I could....
2026-01-12
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With the AI push being everywhere, Redgate is no exception. We’ve been getting requests, demands, suggestions, and more about how to add AI into our products and help developers...
2026-01-09
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fawtle – n. a weird little flaw built into your partner that somehow only endears them more to you, in the way that impurities dissolved in water are what...
2026-01-09
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AWS recently added support for Post-Quantum Key Exchange for TLS in Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Network Load Balancer(NLB). And, our good friend S3 now supports post-quantum TLS key...
2026-01-09 (first published: 2026-01-08)
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2026-01-19 (first published: 2026-01-08)
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Today Redgate announced that we are partnering with Bregal Sagemount, a growth-focused private equity firm. There are no details of terms, and you can read the press release. It’s...
2026-01-07
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I used Claude to build an application that loaded data for me. However, there were a few others things I needed done to help me get the data ready...
2026-01-23 (first published: 2026-01-07)
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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...
Has anyone written a wrapper function (or similar) around STRING_AGG() to allow the retrieval...
Putting this here as we're currently on SQL Server 2019 installed on Windows Server...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Never is Not the Policy
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