Hostettler the Viking Needs a New Ship and Your Help
Hostettler the Viking Needs a New Ship…And Your Help.
My good friend Justin Hostettler Davies (Blog@DBExpertise) pinged me a mail in...
2011-04-11
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Gethyn Ellis
Microsoft Migration Assistant v5.0 Released
As I was surfing around twitter after the marathon TV event that was the Royal Wedding came to end last...
2011-04-06
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Blog Syndication
I got sent an email recently asking how I went about syndicating my blog on some of the popular SQL...
2011-03-21
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Stored Procedure Definitions and Permissions
I wrote a post a while back that showed how you can grant execute permission ‘carte blanche’ for a database...
2011-03-18
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Becoming a DBA: How to gain experience
Last week I had an interesting telephone call from a someone who I connected with on linkedin.com. On Linkedin I’m...
2011-03-16
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Stored Procedure Definitions and Permissions
I wrote a post a while back that showed how you can grant execute permission ‘carte blanche’ for a database...
2011-03-14
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The Joy of Contracting
As you may or may not know I have been contracting since 2007, almost 4 years now and I have...
2011-02-21
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February Update
I haven't written anything for a while and again, for the second month running I missed TSQL2usday. It's a shame...
2011-02-15
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Shameless Plug: My First SSC Article Published Today
Please forgive the shameless plug. My first article was published today on sqlservercentral.com. It’s titled “Backup and Housekeeping with Maintenance...
2011-01-26
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Ebooks: Deal of the Day
Apress, as I expect you know, publish some really good SQL Server books. Some of which are on the MCM...
2011-01-24
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Blogs
The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out...
Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
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would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
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Not Just an Upgrade
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers