Does Management Care About the Database?
In the past, Steve hasn't often felt management considered databases to be important, but that is changing.
2023-11-08
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Database
2023-02-06 (first published: 2023-02-01)
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2019-02-19
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Database Snapshot Use Case: Service Migration
In this article, we show how we used Database Snapshots as a rollbackup plan for a database migration from one data centre to another. Database Snapshots proved to be the best route since we sould not afford the time a backup/restore approach would take.
2020-08-28 (first published: 2018-12-11)
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Generic, parameterised, create DB script
A script to be used as part of development deployments where new databases are required, so as to provide standardisation.
2017-01-23 (first published: 2017-01-18)
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2016-11-30
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Database Backup Information Scripts
Scripts used to validate the backups information as below
1) Database Backups for all databases For Previous Week
2) Most Recent Database Backup for Each Database
3) Most Recent Database Backup for Each Database - Detailed
4) Databases Missing a Back-Up Within Past 24 Hours
2015-11-25 (first published: 2015-11-03)
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Figure out recovery mode for each database
It is anoying that someone created a new database and left its recovery mode in simple and it caused your backup jobs to fail.
2015-11-23 (first published: 2015-10-26)
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2012-07-25
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STRING_AGG DISTINCT
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In-place OS upgrade or migration to new OS?
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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