The Hybrid
Steve Jones talks about SQL Server Connections, the conference that might be the place to be for hybrid IT workers.
2010-10-27
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Editorials
Remote Security
As more and more people look to work away from inside traditional networks, security becomes an issue. As a data professional, Steve Jones reminds you to be sure that your data is protected.
2010-10-25
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SQL Slammer
It's been seven years since SQL Slammer, the worst SQL Server security worm struck. Steve Jones remembers that time.
2010-10-25
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Cheap Fun
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that talks about ways to enjoy life without spending a lot of money. Some of these might even be great team building ideas.
2010-10-21
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Plan for Capacity
It is important that you are monitoring your system to handle the capacity increases as it grows. Steve Jones notes that FourSquare recently had to deal with this.
2010-10-20
370 reads
Living Moore's Law
eBay has quite a new data center in Utah, replacing all their hardware on a two year cycle. Steve Jones thinks that would be a challenge, and an exciting one at that.
2010-10-19
131 reads
Software Assurance Cuts Back
Software Assurance from Microsoft is losing a benefit and Steve Jones comments.
2010-10-18
135 reads
When Times are Tough, Do You Rise to the Occasion?
Life isn't fair, and things don't always go your way. In fact, most people hit a tough patch sooner or later. When that happens to you, how do you respond?
2010-10-18
273 reads
Risk Analysis
This Friday Steve Jones asks about your spending on Disaster Recovery and is it in line with the risks involved.
2010-10-15
123 reads
From One of the Pack to ‘Top Dog’ – Honeymoon Period Over!
In part two of his editorial series on moving to being a manager, Justin H-Davies talks about the challenges that are evolving of being a manager.
2010-10-14
187 reads
Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
Forums
STRING_AGG DISTINCT
Has anyone written a wrapper function (or similar) around STRING_AGG() to allow the retrieval...
In-place OS upgrade or migration to new OS?
Putting this here as we're currently on SQL Server 2019 installed on Windows Server...
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