To Which Experts Should You Listen?
Many experts that speak to at events are working for vendors. Steve notes that this might mean they are making sales pitches, not not always.
2022-09-14
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Many experts that speak to at events are working for vendors. Steve notes that this might mean they are making sales pitches, not not always.
2022-09-14
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We often live with our early decisions on technology, which can be a challenge over time.
2022-09-12
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I have several things I’d like to say in the editorial today, but I feel I have to start off with my condolences to the family of Queen Elizabeth II. For that matter, my condolences to the people of Britain. This truly is the end of an era. Things do indeed move fast sometimes. Working […]
2022-09-10
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Developers, in general, are very optimistic about the code they write. This is likely one cause of their estimates of the time required being low, as well as the various bugs that slip through because of corner cases that appear for the problem being solved. Often developers think they've considered the various ways this code […]
2022-09-07
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2022-09-05
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New licensing rules are coming for using your SQL Server licenses in the cloud.
2022-09-03
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Phil Factor looks at some technologists more famous for thwarting progress than for their own creations.
2022-09-02 (first published: 2017-07-17)
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A guest editorial from Andy Warren looking at the unlimited amount of vacation time from his company.
2022-08-31 (first published: 2017-07-12)
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Different people respond to different types of learning techniques. Maybe a puzzle is the way that you learn.
2022-08-29 (first published: 2017-08-04)
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All sorts of project and organizational analysis go into selecting the right database system for the requirements....or so you'd think.
2022-08-27
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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...
I’ve been rebuilding my three-site SQL Server demo lab, and I ran into something...
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