2018-02-07
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Kenneth Fisher
SQL Homework – February 2018 – Work with security
This month let’s create some security!
Create logins: GUI 5 pts/Script 5 pts
Create a SQL login and a Windows authenticated login....
2018-02-05
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The difference between blogging about something you know, and something you are learning (Love blogging! Live!)
Close but you need to blog about learning while blogging about the difference of blogging when you are learning something...
2018-01-31
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How To: Install SQL Server on an Azure VM
Last month I demonstrated creating an Azure VM with SQL installed using one of the default templates. While this is...
2018-01-29
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What’s dbo?
Don’t you hate it how certain words (well, acronyms in this case) get reused to mean multiple things? dbo seems...
2018-01-29 (first published: 2018-01-22)
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Who should own the database?
TL;DR; SA, or if you are really paranoid then you can create a disabled SQL login with minimal permissions and...
2018-01-25 (first published: 2018-01-15)
2,700 reads
Help it takes forever to open the SQL Server Log!
Just to be very clear, I’m talking about the SQL Server Log, not database logs. Sometimes this is called the...
2018-01-24
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How to read a technical blog
There are thousands, tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands of blogs out there on all sorts of topics. If...
2018-01-17
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Fun with sp_rename
Currently the only way to rename objects in SQL Server is to use sp_rename. Although that may be changing in...
2018-01-11
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2018-01-10
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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