Sub query pass through
Occasionally in forums and on client sites I see conditional subqueries in statements. This is where the developer has decided...
2013-03-26 (first published: 2013-03-22)
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Dave Ballantyne
SQL Saturday 194
On the weekend of the 9th March 2013, the second SQL Saturday in the UK occurred. A massive thank you...
2013-03-12
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A year of SQL Lunchs
Time does fly, and happy birthday SQL Lunch UK.
It has been a year since the first SQLLunch UK, and over...
2013-02-17
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Deploying SSRS artefacts using Powershell ( Simply)
As ive stated in the past, i’m presently part of a team on an ALM project for a major UK...
2013-02-12
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Photo cataloguer
If you are anything like me, by know you will have a few thousand digital images spread across multiple directories...
2013-01-20
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Scaling out SQLLunch UK
As you may be aware, I have been running a lunch time user group ‘SQLLunch UK’ having stolen drawn inspiration...
2013-01-11
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SSDT – TSQL Unit testing in multiple environments
Late in December, one the long awaited portions of functionality inside SSDT was released to an eager public, that being...
2013-01-07
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When is a whitespace not a whitespace ?
As I'm sure I must have mentioned in the past, I’m presently involved in a large ALM project at a...
2013-01-04
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My new favourite traceflag
As we are all aware, there are a number of traceflags. Some documented, some semi-documented and some completely undocumented. Here...
2012-12-06
991 reads
SQL Saturday 194 - Exeter
Many kudos goes to Jonathan and Annette Allen and the others on the team for confirming SQL Saturday 194 in...
2012-12-06
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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
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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