Tips for Minimizing Deadlocks
Deadlocks are caused by poor database design, inappropriate isolation level, inefficient code etc.
Checkout my article (Tips for Minimizing Deadlocks) on...
2013-05-07
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Basit Aalishan Masood-Al-Farooq
XML Support and SQL Server (Part 6)
Checkout the sixth part of my XML support and SQL Server article series here.
In this part, you will learn about...
2013-05-07
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Identify the cause of SQL Server blocking
In my previous article (Different techniques to identify blocking in SQL Server) on MSSQLTips.com, I discussed about locks and blocks,...
2013-04-24
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SQL Server index related dynamic management views and functions (Part 2)
SQL Server uses indexes to sort and organize table data. It creates indexes based on ordering values from one or...
2013-04-24
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The Public Role – a potential high risk security concern for DBAs
The public role is a special fixed-database role, which exists in every SQL Server database. The public role is different from all other database-level...
2013-04-24
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Determining when statistics were last updated in SQL Server?
I received an email from friend today asking how he can see when statistics were last updated in SQL Server....
2013-04-15
3,449 reads
Consolidating Error Logs from multiple SQL Servers using SSIS
SQL Server stores all informational messages, warning messages, and errors in operating system and application log files. As a database...
2013-04-14
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SQL Server index related dynamic management views and functions (Part 1)
Microsoft SQL Server provides DBAs and Developers with several index related dynamic management views and functions, which they can use...
2013-04-14
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SQL Server Reporiting Services: Migrating SSRS reports, data sources and subscriptions from one server to another
As part of our SQL Server infrastructure consolidation project, it was decided to consolidate multiple companies SQL Server 2005 / SQL...
2013-04-09 (first published: 2013-04-02)
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The PUBLIC role – Do not use it for database access!
As per Microsoft Books Online and SQL Server Security best practice white paper, it is recommended to periodically review privileges...
2013-04-04
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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
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