Validating Replication (All or Just One Article)
You may sometimes have reports or other processes that are dependent on transactional replication being current. If that is the case, you will probably need a mechanism to check...
2019-08-09
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Pam Mooney
Automating Replication On Your Server
If you use replication, you have had the situation occur where you had to restore a replicated database. You’ve have doubtless been paged to restore a replicated database. You...
2019-07-31
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2019-07-22
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One Way to Find Broken Code on Your Server
Before we approached our last major SQL Server upgrade, I was curious about what might break. Yes, I had used the DEA to check our code against deprecated or...
2019-07-19
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Why I Take Pictures at Conferences
Why do I take pictures of screens at conferences? Let me count them up for you! Read on...
2019-07-05
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Gone Fishing…
It's SQLIntersection time, and also time to meet a new member of the family. He's old enough for social media, though...
2019-06-07
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What is Service Broker, and Why Would We Use It?
I was recently asked in a Service Broker class that I was teaching why we would use it. Good question! Read on....
2019-05-15 (first published: 2019-05-03)
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Drop It Like It’s Hot (Part 2 of the Rename/Drop Objects Process)
Dread the drop no more! Part 2 of the rename/drop process.
2019-05-06 (first published: 2019-04-22)
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Find Occurrences of a String Anywhere on an Instance
Oh, the dreaded string search (on an entire instance). What to do?
2019-04-11
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Automatically Drop a Login/User (and Solve the Schema Owner Problem)
Ever tried to drop a user/login, only to find that they owned a schema? Here's how I do it...
2019-04-08
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Blogs
Deployment Pipelines in Fabric – What Are They?
By HeyMo0sh
In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as...
TempDB Internals – What’s New (SQL Server 2016 to 2022)
By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
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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