SQLDIY: Index Fragmentation Levels
Indexes, indexes, indexes my kingdom for an index! Well, something like that. Indexes are the single most important structure in...
2011-07-07
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Wesley Brown
- Interests: Collecting old computers
- Skills: I talk a lot.
Pliant Technology, Enterprise Flash Drives For Your SQL Server: Part 2
Adding In Others For Contrast
In our first part we introduced Pliant and the LS 300 drive. In part 2 we...
2011-07-06
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SQLDIY: Statistics Information Including Last Update
One of the most important aspects of keeping your system running well is updating and managing your statistics. Since the...
2011-07-05
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SQLDIY: Gathering A Data Dictionary
In this installment we are looking at assembling a basic data dictionary from the column level meta data stored in...
2011-07-01
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The Austin Fall Classic, SQLSaturday is Coming To Austin, TX
Come Get Your Learn On!
You heard right, on October 1st 2011 you need to be in Austin, TX. We have...
2011-06-30
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The Austin Fall Classic, SQLSaturday is Comming To Austin, TX
Come Get Your Learn On!
You heard right, on October 1st 2011 you need to be in Austin, TX. We have...
2011-06-30
1,544 reads
SQLDIY: Tracking Space Usage At the Index Level
I am a fan of information, the more the merrier. Anytime I’m tasked with tracking a production server over the...
2011-06-29
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Understanding Benchmarks
That Means What?
Vizzini: HE DIDN’T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE.
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means...
2011-06-29
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SQLDIY: Database Space Detail
Continuing to build up our data gathering library we shift our focus to tracking database file growth. This particular procedure...
2011-06-28
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SQLDIY: Tracking Wait Stats
One of the most important methodologies to date for troubleshooting problems with the SQL Server engine is examining the wait...
2011-06-27
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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,...
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A Quick Restore
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Guarding Against SQL Injection at the Database Layer (SQL Server)
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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
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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