SANS Stay Sharp Course - SEC351: Computer and Network Security Awareness
A few years ago I took the SANS GIAC Security Essentials Course on-line. Included in it was an attempt at...
2006-06-21
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Brian Kelley
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Whitepaper: SQL Server 2005 Physical Database Storage Design
Microsoft has released a whitepaper on SQL Server 2005 Physical Database Storage Design
(Microsoft Word document). It's 35 pages in length...
2006-06-15
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Distributing Database Connection Strings Using Active Directory Group Policy
I ran into Brian Knight today on the Expo floor here at TechEd.
It was good to catch up a bit...
2006-06-13
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TechEd - DATTLC01 : Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2005
It's
been a few years since I wrote my eBook on SQL Server performance monitoring
but I still keep a strong interest...
2006-06-12
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In Boston for TechEd
This will be my first ever TechEd and I'm looking forward to it. I was able to go to the...
2006-06-11
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Two things I wish they'd change about endpoints in SQL Server 2005
I've
been playing around with endpoints in SQL Server 2005 looking at how they can
be used to enhance security for SQL...
2006-05-27
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When It Takes Time...
Saw this from Jason Haley's Interesting Finds post for the morning of May 25, 2006:
Project Managing Latency or: How to...
2006-05-25
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Disaster Recovery and SQL Server, Part II
In a previous post, Disaster Recovery and SQL Server, Part I,
I pointed to the Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article which...
2006-05-24
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SQL Prompt
I downloaded and installed SQL Prompt from Red Gate this morning. If
you aren't aware, PromptSQL was bought by Red Gate...
2006-05-23
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Disaster Recovery and SQL Server, Part I
The last few weeks I've been working on disaster recovery procedures
for my organization. We review them at least yearly to...
2006-05-20
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Blogs
The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
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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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Not Just an Upgrade
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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