Query Hash and Query Plan Hash Mapping
The problem
As a fan of Dynamic Management Objects (DMOs), Query Store and Extended Events, I often work with the Query Hash and Query Plan Hash (I’ll refer to them...
2022-04-11
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Query Tuning and Easy Solutions
TLDR: There ain’t one. I was privileged last week to be able to present a couple of sessions at the SQL Server and Azure SQL Conference (great event, I...
2022-04-18 (first published: 2022-04-11)
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Setting the Container Name–#SQLNewBlogger
I had started a Stairway series on containers (which I need to get back to), and I got a question. How do we set the name of a container?...
2022-04-18 (first published: 2022-04-11)
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Daily Coping 11 Apr 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-04-11
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Daily Coping 8 Apr 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-04-08
32 reads
Speaking at SQL Saturday Jacksonville 2022
SQL Saturday is coming back to Jacksonville this May. I’m excited to go as I’ve like the city, but I’ve never been to this particular SQL Saturday. On May...
2022-04-07
22 reads
KEEP PLAN Demystified
Foreword
I was always wondering what the KEEP PLAN hint does. The documentation isn’t very specific (emphasis mine):
Forces the Query Optimizer to relax the estimated recompile threshold for a query.
In...
2022-04-07
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Daily Coping 7 Apr 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-04-07
28 reads
Authentication Error in Azure Devops when Deploying DACPAC
I was building a CI/CD pipeline in Azure Devops, where I was building my SSDT project into a DACPAC file and then deploying it to the development server. For...
2022-04-20 (first published: 2022-04-07)
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Removing a LocalDB Instance
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This might be obvious and easy, but I...
2022-04-06
170 reads
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Never is Not the Policy
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Question of the Day
Rebuilding All Indexes
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