Daily Coping 28 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to broaden your perspective: read a different source of media. I’m off to the UK today. I tend to read books a lot when I...
2022-11-28
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Today’s coping tip is to broaden your perspective: read a different source of media. I’m off to the UK today. I tend to read books a lot when I...
2022-11-28
14 reads
We all (should) know that running SQL Server in hyperconverged virtual environments, both on-premises and in the cloud, has some interesting trade-offs. The biggest is write latency from the...
2022-12-09 (first published: 2022-11-25)
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Today’s coping tip is to connect with someone from a different generation. This tip makes me feel old. When I see “different generation” I used to think of someone...
2022-11-25
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This blog post is not about which User Interface is better, Classic or Snowsight – If anyone does want my feedback on what I like and don’t like about...
2022-11-25
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The title of this blog post is a bit misleading, because what we actually want to do is to install the SSIS development functionality in Visual Studio 2022. SSAS...
2022-12-12 (first published: 2022-11-25)
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Today’s coping tip is to try a new way to practice self-care and be kind to yourself. One of the things that I learned to do better during the...
2022-11-24
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Unity Catalog in Databricks provides a single place to create and manage data access policies that apply across all workspaces and users in an organization. It also provides a...
2022-12-07 (first published: 2022-11-23)
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Today’s coping tip is to build new ideas by thinking “Yes, and what if…”. I tend to look for the holes, problems, limitations, and downside of various proposals. I’ve...
2022-11-23
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We have some data we can query using the serverless SQL pools in Azure Synapse Analytics. For this blog post, I’m querying data that is stored in Azure Cosmos...
2022-12-09 (first published: 2022-11-23)
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We’ve all been there as DBAs…people requesting access to the servers that we look after to be able to view certain things. I’ve always got, well, twitchy with giving...
2022-12-07 (first published: 2022-11-23)
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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