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2016-12-07 (first published: 2015-05-07)
2,912 reads
Scripts
2016-12-06 (first published: 2015-07-27)
2,523 reads
Email SP Results
Will take a stored procedure and email the results in a dynamically generated embedded HTML table or as an attachment.
2016-12-05 (first published: 2015-05-29)
2,819 reads
Kill SPIDs through automated job(while restore)
Here's a script, for killing a SPIDs against a particular database, here am using BIN as the database.
2016-12-02 (first published: 2008-07-17)
1,812 reads
Truncate tables with foreign keys
Truncating tables with constraints always had been a pain, since we have to drop and recreate all the FKs. I created a script that takes care of dropping and recreating the foreign keys while truncating. Please use with caution! and always respect your Data !
2016-12-01 (first published: 2016-11-28)
1,382 reads
2016-11-30 (first published: 2016-11-22)
807 reads
2016-11-29 (first published: 2015-03-30)
3,917 reads
2016-11-28 (first published: 2016-11-21)
4,140 reads
Warm the cache with a table and its indexes
Warm the cache with a particular table by reading it into memory.
2016-11-25 (first published: 2016-11-14)
904 reads
2016-11-24 (first published: 2003-07-09)
797 reads
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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