PASS Data Summit 2023 KeyNote 1
Morning from the PASS Data Summit! I will be live blogging the event today, so check back for announcements and releases throughout the keynote. Today, we have Shireesh Thota,...
2023-11-15
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Morning from the PASS Data Summit! I will be live blogging the event today, so check back for announcements and releases throughout the keynote. Today, we have Shireesh Thota,...
2023-11-15
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I suspect many people assume this is the case, but a customer recently asked if SQL Compare handles indexes. It does, and this post shows the basics of index...
2023-11-15
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When I review customers database environments, I always check to see what the recovery model is for their databases and review that with the customer. I often times have...
2023-11-15
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I am the host for T-SQL Tuesday this month, and I hope that a lot of people like the topic. This idea actually came to me earlier this year...
2023-11-14
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For those looking to be first in line when my book is available for a printed copy, I’m very excited to let you know that it is now available...
2023-11-14
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In a previous blog post, I showed you how to use PowerShell to retrieve the details of the certificate being used for encryption-in-transit, aka TLS encryption. I have received...
2023-11-22 (first published: 2023-11-14)
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Shortly after Microsoft Fabric came out a few months ago, I created an account and started playing around. I love to push technology to...
2023-11-14
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A great question came up over at DBA.StackExchange regarding the query store reports time intervals: How can SQL Server’s Query Store Reports show data for minute-length intervals, when “Statistics...
2023-11-24 (first published: 2023-11-13)
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I’m up in Seattle this week for the PASS Data Community Summit 2023. This is almost an annual event for me. I’ve missed a few since 1999, but not...
2023-11-13
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Earlier this year I presented at PyCon 2023 in Salt Lake City, UT on the topic of "Efficient Cross-Server Data Joins on Slow Networks with Python". You can watch...
2023-11-13
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By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
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...
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