Three Turns On The Road
Huh? My story? Okay. It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child. I remember the...
2010-02-16
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Wesley Brown
- Interests: Collecting old computers
- Skills: I talk a lot.
Out Of My Comfort Zone: Building a Web App
If you read Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Stripe Size, Block Size, and IO Patterns you know I built a little...
2010-01-19
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Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Stripe Size, Block Size, and IO Patterns
If you have been following this series we have covered system buses, hard disks, host bus adapters and RAID. Along...
2010-01-04
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A Year In Review
It’s been a busy year for me. Last year I quit traveling and took a 8 to 5 job so...
2010-01-02
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Fundamentals of Storage Systems – RAID, An Introduction
In previous articles, we have covered the system bus, host bus adapters, and disk drives. Now we will move up...
2009-12-15
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Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Disk Controllers, Host Bus Adapters, and Interfaces
We have covered the Hard Disk and the System Bus. This time around we will cover disk controllers and host...
2009-12-11
3,898 reads
Fundamentals of Storage Systems – RAID and Hard Disk Reliability, Under the Covers
In the last RAID article we covered the basics. This is a little deeper dive into the underlying mechanics of...
2009-12-08
1,522 reads
Fundamentals of Storage Systems – RAID, An Introduction
In previous articles, we have covered the system bus, host bus adapters, and disk drives. Now we will move up...
2009-12-07
8,927 reads
Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Disk Controllers, Host Bus Adapters, and Interfaces
We have covered the Hard Disk and the System Bus. This time around we will cover disk controllers and host...
2009-12-03
6,471 reads
Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Testing IO Systems
12/03/2009 - UPDATE! There were a couple of bugs in the SQLIOCommandGenerator new SQLIOTools.zip has been updated.
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I often tell people one...
2009-12-02
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Blogs
TempDB Internals – What’s New (SQL Server 2016 to 2022)
By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 2: Generative AI, Multimodal Systems, and Agent AI
By Vinay Thakur
continuing from Day 1 where we covered the history of AI and GPT family,...
A Wellbeing Day at Redgate
By Steve Jones
It’s a day off for Redgate today. This is our annual wellbeing day, where...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers