Attending and presenting at conferences
I have attended and presented at a ton of conferences over the years (see the entire list at Presentations | James Serra’s Blog). If you are looking to learn...
2022-11-10
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I have attended and presented at a ton of conferences over the years (see the entire list at Presentations | James Serra’s Blog). If you are looking to learn...
2022-11-10
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Today’s coping tip is to respond to a difficult situation in a different way. There are plenty of difficult situations I find myself in, some of which create lots...
2022-11-10
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At Tuesday the 13th of December, I give a webinar about Unison, a self-service online data quality tool of Melissa Data. This is a 30-minute webinar, sponsored by Melissa...
2022-11-10
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One of the things I’ve been working on this year is a Power BI report for the kids I coaco in volleyball. As a part of this, I want...
2022-11-25 (first published: 2022-11-09)
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Today’s coping tip is to make time for a friend and have a coffee, meal, or just spend time. It’s been a busy few months for me. Since Sept...
2022-11-09
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It’s a busy time for me, but it’s also T-SQL Tuesday blog party day. I’m rushing a bit as I forgot about this (thanks for the reminder, Deb) and...
2022-11-08
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Foreword
Even though I picked the question, I struggled to answer it.
Following my train of thought - production code should be of the highest quality. To enforce quality, we use...
2022-11-23 (first published: 2022-11-08)
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I wrote about getting started last week, with invitations from others. I think the first time I actually made my own submission was to the Indy Tech Fest in...
2022-11-08
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It’s that time of the month again! It’s T-SQL Tuesday and this month Tom Zika (blog|twitter) is hosting. Tom would ... Continue reading
2022-11-23 (first published: 2022-11-08)
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Today’s coping tip is to set a goal that brings a sense of purpose for the coming month. For me, I’m going away from primary work to secondary work....
2022-11-08
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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