A Real World Security Reminder
A reminder today that security in the physical world can affect the digital world.
2022-02-23
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A reminder today that security in the physical world can affect the digital world.
2022-02-23
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Continuous backup in Cosmos DB doesn't quite work as Steve would expect. He has a few comments on why it is important you know how your backup and restore system works.
2022-02-21
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Years ago I worked at a large company, and we purchased a SAN appliance to consolidate our storage. This was at a time when the majority of our servers used locally attached storage. This was a big purchase, and we knew that we had to plan for issues. So, we actually purchased two appliances and […]
2022-02-19
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Steve wants you to manage your career and actively find the job that is best for you.
2022-02-18
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The NoSQL class of databases were very popular for awhile, but it seems many companies are sticking with an RDBMS in many cases.
2022-02-16
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If you want to actively manage your career and drive it forward, Steve has some advice.
2022-02-14
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In the last week I've been actively trying to join the PostgreSQL community. It's been an interesting experience. I suspect it's going to stay interesting for a while. As part of what I'm doing, I saw this excellent video from Ryan Booz, talking about joining a new community. It got me to thinking. You have […]
2022-02-12
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When designing a database, choosing good datatypes is important, but not necessarily all the time. Today Steve wonders if you still use fixed sting data types.
2022-02-11
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The innovations and possibilities of cloud computing are exciting to Steve.
2022-02-09
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Is DevOps and Agile better than waterfall? Steve has a few thoughts after a recent experience.
2022-02-07
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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