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Database Fundamentals #30: Create Foreign Keys With T-SQL
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Database Fundamentals #30: Create Foreign Keys With T-SQL
You can create foreign keys using TSQL roughly the same way as you created primary keys. You can either use the ALTER TABLE statement to add the foreign key,...
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How to Repair a Database in SQL Server Management Studio
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How to Repair a Database in SQL Server Management Studio
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SQL Server Admin Best Practices with DMVs at GroupBy Americas 2021
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A New Road Ahead…
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A New Road Ahead…
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2021-05-22
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How to extend your existing SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance to the Cloud for Disaster Recovery
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2021-06-09 (first published: 2021-05-22)
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Question of the Day
The Disabled Index
I run this code on SQL Server 2022.
CREATE TABLE Drink
(
drinkid INT NOT NULL
CONSTRAINT DrinkPK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
drinkname VARCHAR(20),
rating NUMERIC(2, 1)
)
GO
INSERT INTO Drink
(
drinkid,
drinkname,
rating
)
VALUES
(1, 'Margarita', 4.5),
(2, 'Mojito', 4.3),
(3, 'Old Fashioned', 4.7),
(4, 'Martini', 4.4),
(5, 'Cosmopolitan', 4.2)
GO
ALTER INDEX drinkpk ON dbo.drink DISABLE
GO
SELECT * FROM dbo.Drink
GO
What is the result? See possible answers