The Back Door DBA
Steve Jones is taking well-earned break. In his guest editorial slot, Brad McGehee discusses three simple techniques to help DBAs manage their time more effectively.
2008-06-23
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Steve Jones is taking well-earned break. In his guest editorial slot, Brad McGehee discusses three simple techniques to help DBAs manage their time more effectively.
2008-06-23
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2008-06-20
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Are you in the Zone at work? Can you find those times when you are amazingly productive? Tim Mitchell asks a question in this guest editorial.
2008-06-19
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Steve Jones looks at the positive side of someone else doing your work when you're on vacation. There's an interesting benefit for the company.
2008-06-18
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Money. It's part of the reason why we all work, though hopefully not all of it. Steve Jones comments a bit on financial matters.
2008-06-17
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Steve Jones talks about being right versus being effective in your IT work.
2008-06-16
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Steve Jones looks back at the news of the past, including a look at RC0, the latest release of SQL Server 2008.
2008-06-16
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2008-06-12
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2008-06-11
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Steve Jones talks about IT Project Failure and how you should re-evaluate things are you move forward.
2008-06-10
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By Steve Jones
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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