Can You Become a More Productive Engineer?
Steve has a few thoughts on becoming more effective. This involves more than just becoming a better coder.
2025-01-24
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Steve has a few thoughts on becoming more effective. This involves more than just becoming a better coder.
2025-01-24
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Most of us don't work on budgets, but we are affected by them. Is it a good idea for IT management to use AI to help plan their budgets? Steve has a few thoughts today.
2025-01-22
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This editorial was originally published on May 18, 2019. It is being re-run as Steve is on holiday. Back in my days as a SQL server DBA, I didn't have many third-party tools at my disposal. I remember having a monitoring tool with licenses for only three or four SQL server instances. Whenever there was […]
2025-01-20 (first published: 2019-05-18)
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2025-01-17
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You have a number of options for moving your database to the cloud, but Steve has a few things you might want to consider before you do so.
2025-01-15
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Choice is good, but too much choice can cause problems in both coffee shops and software teams, as Steve notes today.
2025-01-13
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Yeah, I know, holidays are over. It snowed about four inches overnight here and it's still coming down a little. You'll forgive me for having that song running through my head. Yesterday morning, before the storm started, we did a check through the house to make sure we were ready for a couple of days […]
2025-01-11
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There have been a number of changes to the T-SQL language that are very specialized. Steve asks if you use any in your code?
2025-01-10
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Are you doing the things at work that your boss cares about or the things you care about? Steve has a few thoughts on this.
2025-01-08
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There is still a huge demand for data centers, both from cloud vendors and private enterprises.
2025-01-06
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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