On the exorcism of Ghost Records
There was a question earlier on one of the SQL forums as to whether or not Ghost Cleanup overwrote the...
2011-06-07
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Gail Shaw
- Interests: Computer Graphics, Aikido, Roleplaying
PASS Summit Session Votes
I blogged a week ago about the sessions that I submitted for the PASS Summit this year. At the point...
2011-05-18
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On Transactions, errors and rollbacks
Do errors encountered within a transaction result in a rollback?
It seems, at first, to be a simple question with an...
2011-05-17
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Pass summit abstracts
I missed the Pass summit last November for a number of reasons, but I’m hoping I can attend this year....
2011-05-10
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Sql Saturday #83
Frikkie Bosch opened the day with a short keynote giving an overview of Denali, talking mostly from a marketing point...
2011-05-09
803 reads
Indexing for ORs
All of the indexing strategy posts I’ve written in the past have been concerned with predicates combined with ANDs. That’s...
2011-05-03
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Meme Monday: I Got 99 SQL Problems And the Disk Ain’t One
From Tom LaRock’s latest idea…
For a change I’m not going to mention performance (well, not more than once anyway)...
2011-05-02
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To TOP or not to TOP an EXISTS
Earlier this year I had a look at a query pattern that I often see on forums and in production...
2011-04-05
5,765 reads
Statistics, row estimations and the ascending date column
SQL’s auto-updating statistics go a fair way to making SQL Server a self-tuning database engine and in many cases they...
2011-03-22
2,067 reads
Q & A from 24 Hours of PASS session
Earlier this week I took part in the 24 Hours of PASS live webcast event. There were far more questions...
2011-03-18
701 reads
Blogs
Tooling for Success: The Best FinOps Tools and Technologies
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps person, I know that to make FinOps successful, you need more...
From Planning to Practice: Setting Up Your FinOps Framework
By HeyMo0sh
As someone who works in DevOps, I’m always focused on creating systems that are...
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
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SQL Art 2: St Patrick’s Day in SSMS (Shamrock + Pint + Pixel Text)
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Breaking Down Your Work
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top II
I have a database, DNRTest, that has a number of tables and other objects in it. The other day, I was trying to mock up a test and ran this code on the same server:
-- run yesterday CREATE DATABASE DNRTest2 GO USE DNRTest2 GO CREATE TABLE NewTable (id INT) GOToday, I realize that I need a copy of DNRTest for another mockup, and I run this:
-- run today USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest2 FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens? See possible answers