Daily Coping 22 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to share something you find inspiring, helpful, or amusing. Maybe not inspiring to you, but it was for me. We recorded a number of customers...
2023-02-22
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Today’s coping tip is to share something you find inspiring, helpful, or amusing. Maybe not inspiring to you, but it was for me. We recorded a number of customers...
2023-02-22
21 reads
Today’s coping tip is to respond kindly to everyone you talk to today. This is often easy for me. I did this last week while traveling. I got coffee...
2023-02-21
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I was talking with some developers from my team about monitoring, and I said, “We all use the same tools,” referring to other monitoring software. Then, it hit me....
2023-02-21
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(2023-Feb-20) The previous posts covered the following areas of Metadata-driven pipelines in Azure Data Factory:Part 1 - Data CopyPart 2 - Feed ConfigurationPart 3 - Column MetadataThese 3 areas suggested that it is...
2023-03-01 (first published: 2023-02-20)
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Josh & myself at Antman & the Wasp Quantumania Hello Dear Reader! It's the Presidents Day holiday today in America. With it comes a 3 day weekend. To celebrate Josh...
2023-03-03 (first published: 2023-02-20)
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Today’s coping tip is to appreciate the good qualities of someone in your life. We have a person in Redgate that does a lot of work to support our...
2023-02-20
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In this blog post, I will show you how to build a hello world container-based web application in the go programming language. The reason I want to do this...
2023-03-01 (first published: 2023-02-19)
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Today’s coping tip is to support a local business with a positive online review or friendly message. When I discover a business I like or one that delivers value...
2023-02-17
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A while back I wrote a post on how to retrieve the SQL Server images in the Microsoft Container Registry (MCR). It’s pretty simple to check the MCR but...
2023-02-27 (first published: 2023-02-17)
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Today’s coping tip is to focus on being kind rather than being right. This is one of the things that grows my wisdom over time. I don’t need to...
2023-02-16
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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