How to Improve Database Design to Speed Up SQL Queries
This article examines some basic database design principles that help ensure your queries can execute more quickly.
2023-05-15
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This article examines some basic database design principles that help ensure your queries can execute more quickly.
2023-05-15
9,562 reads
Learn how to build scatter plots in Power BI and use the clustering option to automatically find clusters within the report data for easy visualization.
2022-10-12
Learn how to create SQL Server database tables, foreign keys, and create data to begin building a database to support application development.
2022-09-14
When you have multiple clients in your application, do you want one or many databases?
2022-06-08
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In this article we look at a comparison of different things you can specify when creating tables in SQL Server and in Oracle.
2022-04-01
Is a database like a series of micro-services? Steve draws an analogy today.
2021-11-12
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When we don't have all the information needed to model data, we often use NULL. However, that causes other issues.
2021-04-12
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Learning to be a better database developer can be hard. Today Steve asks how you might suggest someone learn.
2021-01-22
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Learn how to use Gitflow workflow to meet the needs of developing new database related features and how to deploy these database changes.
2021-01-21
This article covers the relational database system evolution and covers terms used in relational models such as relation, tuple, attribute, domain, schemas, and key.
2021-01-07
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
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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