STORPORT: Reading an ETL trace
One of the things I enjoy most is diagnosing storage latency. I honestly couldn’t tell you why I enjoy it...
2018-03-05 (first published: 2018-02-19)
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One of the things I enjoy most is diagnosing storage latency. I honestly couldn’t tell you why I enjoy it...
2018-03-05 (first published: 2018-02-19)
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If you’re in Chicago on March 17 and have some free time, why not check out all the cool kids?...
2018-02-19
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I’ve never been a fan of a GUI for DBA work. Give me a hand crafted script or a list...
2017-12-26 (first published: 2017-12-12)
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Let’s say you have some obscure list of career goals for the year and one of those is to be...
2017-11-09
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I last posted about changing a table without changing a view that represents the table and how this may affect...
2017-10-03
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I had a fairly puzzling issue today, which took a few minutes to figure out. Some time ago I created...
2017-10-02 (first published: 2017-09-25)
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Databases are platforms that are designed to securely store and retrieve your data. Perhaps that’s why they’re called a data...
2017-09-22
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For those that don’t know, I live in Texas. Been here all my life. There are two main things north...
2017-09-15 (first published: 2017-09-11)
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In case you missed the first post on this topic, you can read it here: SQL Server: SARGability. This post...
2017-09-12 (first published: 2017-09-07)
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Continuing the comparison between these two database giants, we dive into the substring function. If you’ve been working with databases...
2017-09-05 (first published: 2017-08-23)
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By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
By Vinay Thakur
continuing from Day 1 where we covered the history of AI and GPT family,...
By Steve Jones
It’s a day off for Redgate today. This is our annual wellbeing day, where...
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I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
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