T-SQL Tuesday #179: What’s In Your Data Detective Toolkit?
Most of us who work with data have, at least a few times, been presented with a challenge to explore and attempt to make sense of a poorly-defined set...
2024-10-01
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Most of us who work with data have, at least a few times, been presented with a challenge to explore and attempt to make sense of a poorly-defined set...
2024-10-01
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A customer recently wanted to know if any of their instances were too old and out of support. This was for a compliance purpose, and they had the need...
2024-09-30
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A customer recently wanted to know if any of their instances were too old and out of support. This was for a compliance purpose, and they had the need...
2024-09-30
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A reader of one of my previous posts pointed out that the legend order and segment order in my core visual stacked column chart did not match. I had...
2024-09-30
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A reader of one of my previous posts pointed out that the legend order and segment order in my core visual stacked column chart did not match. I had...
2024-09-30
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A reader of one of my previous posts pointed out that the legend order and segment order in my core visual stacked column chart did not match. I had...
2024-09-30
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A reader of one of my previous posts pointed out that the legend order and segment order in my core visual stacked column chart did not match. I had...
2024-10-21 (first published: 2024-09-30)
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Please, let me reiterate: The only valid test of a backup is a restore. THE ONLY VALID TEST OF A BACKUP IS A RESTORE. I’m happy that you have...
2024-10-16 (first published: 2024-09-30)
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Often I see running totals that are written in SQL using a variety of techniques. Many pieces of code were written in pre-2012 techniques, prior to window functions being...
2024-09-30
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Often I see running totals that are written in SQL using a variety of techniques. Many pieces of code were written in pre-2012 techniques, prior to window functions being...
2024-09-30
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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