Planning the Development, Testing, Staging, and Production Environments for SQL Server part 1 (Republished)
When asked about how to plan the ideal dev, test, staging and production SQL Server environments it’s easy to get...
2012-05-31
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How to synchronize the data from the Production environment to Development, Testing and Staging Environments for SQL Server? (Republished)
How to synchronize the data from the Production environment to Development, Testing and Staging Environments for SQL Server? (Republished)
One of...
2012-05-31
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No More SQLRally In the US
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2012-05-31
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A new neat feature in SQL Server 2012 is THROW
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2012-05-31
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Syncing your calendars
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2012-05-30
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I’m Going on Tour
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2012-06-01 (first published: 2012-05-30)
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Turn on Instant File Initialization for SQL Server Performance
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2012-05-30
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Denali – Day 30: Deprecated Features
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2012-05-30
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Learning Tree: SQL Server DBA Skills Upgrade
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2012-05-30
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The Standing Desk Experiment
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2012-05-29
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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