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Using metadata to drive software is very useful, which means that having clean data and lots of metadata can help create better software.
2021-03-30
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Using metadata to drive software is very useful, which means that having clean data and lots of metadata can help create better software.
2021-03-30
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2020-09-30
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There is a lot of information held in SQL Server metadata about your SQL Server procedures, triggers, views and functions. Some of it is valuable, other nuggets are useful and a few are rather dull but worthy. It really all needs to be tied together to tell the full story, especially if you are not able to, or do not want to, query the metadata directly.
2019-12-02
To be able to make full use of the system catalog to find out more about a database, you need to be familiar with the metadata functions. They save a great deal of time and typing when querying the metadata. Once you get the hang of these functions, the system catalog suddenly seems simple to use, as Robert Sheldon demonstrates in this article.
2016-03-28
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To finish this short series on extended properties a look at documenting sets of database objects
2011-04-05
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Continuing the short series on extended properties, this article explains how to turbocharge the creation of extended properties
2011-03-29
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In this second article of a short series we look at using the Extended Properties which you have added to a database
2011-03-22
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Part one of a four part series intent on demystifying and making more accessible SQL Server extended properties
2013-09-27 (first published: 2011-03-17)
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Generates a list of Server, Database, Table , Column Names and properties
2011-02-08 (first published: 2011-01-31)
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I came across a project which required a list of all columns within a server and thought I would post it here in case anyone else had this requirement.
2010-09-30 (first published: 2010-09-28)
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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