Look At The SQLSaturday Orlando Home Page
One of the weaknesses of the current SQLSaturday tool set is that the front page isn’t strong by default. It...
2014-03-10
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Bad Ideas: Alert Storming
Fellow DBA: There are so many alerts! It takes me a long time to get through them all. How do...
2014-03-10
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The Phoenix Project: a DBA rises from the ashes
About a year ago, fellow blogger Thomas LaRock recommended the book The Phoenix Project, claiming that “every business leader and...
2014-03-19 (first published: 2014-03-10)
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Two Digit Dates in SQL – MM/DD/YYYY
When creating dates or numbers as strings it is sometimes required to have two digit numbers.
For example, instead of...
2014-03-10
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Two Digit Dates in SQL – MM/DD/YYYY
When creating dates or numbers as strings it is sometimes required to have two digit numbers.
For example, instead of this:...
2014-03-10
1,198 reads
PowerShell, help me to publish my SSRS reports to SharePoint!
Every time when I heard the word 'PowerShell' it was just like a call to Terra Incognito, you know nothing...
2014-03-18 (first published: 2014-03-09)
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Doing it with the EzAPI
In my last post, I attempted to write a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Package programmatically.
I used the API that...
2014-03-09
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5 Things a developer should know about databases
Database Normalization
Theoretical versus real-world
There is not a strong need for developers to know the theoretical definition of 1st thru 5th...
2014-03-17 (first published: 2014-03-09)
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VMware Certification Changes
The last twelve months in my certification world have been rather odd. First, Microsoft has terminated their Microsoft Certified SQL...
2014-03-09
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Auditing VMware vCenter Actions (on SQL Server)
When you’ve got a SIEM appliance or application, you want actions and events going into it as a central repository....
2014-03-07
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Blogs
Why sys.fn_dblog Is Undocumented And Why It's Still There
By SQLPals
Why sys.fn_dblog Is Undocumented And Why It's Still There Why sys.fn_dblog...
T-SQL Tuesday #202 SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget: A Roundup
When I put together the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #202, I wasn't sure what...
A Last Minute Trip to the EU
By Steve Jones
My life has some crazy travel stretches for sure. Between speaking, office visits, customer...
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The Disabled Index
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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