Linked Servers
Do you have linked servers that have been created in your environment? Do you know what these linked servers are? Finding Linked Servers SQL Server has provided us means...
2012-03-01
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Jason Brimhall
Using SSIS to Maintain the File System
Integration Services is one of the more flexible tools available on the SQL Server platform. Jason Brimhall shows us a way to remove old files, either backups or flat files, after a configurable period of time.
2012-02-24
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2012-02-08
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Goals 2012
As I have wanted to do each year, here is my goals post for 2012. Last year I set out to do this very same thing but was very...
2012-02-08
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Freedom
Not too long ago, I blogged about a Book called Daemon. Freedom is the sequel to Daemon. I enjoyed reading this book. The story continues from Daemon, but in...
2012-02-07
7 reads
Freedom
Not too long ago, I blogged about a Book called Daemon. Freedom is the sequel to Daemon.
I enjoyed reading this...
2012-02-07
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S3OLV – Get your Merge On
We are rapidly closing in on the February meeting for S3OLV. You might remember reading about the upcoming meeting here.
We...
2012-02-07
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S3OLV – Get your Merge On
We are rapidly closing in on the February meeting for S3OLV. You might remember reading about the upcoming meeting here. We are looking to have an excellent meeting this...
2012-02-07
3 reads
Slammer, Alive…Barely
Slammer
By now you must have heard of the SQL Slammer worm. It was quite an infectious little nuisance. The harm...
2012-01-30 (first published: 2012-01-24)
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System Base Tables
On January 19th, I published a post about the Dedicated Administrator Connection. I spoke very briefly of the system base...
2012-01-30
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Blogs
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...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 2: Generative AI, Multimodal Systems, and Agent AI
By Vinay Thakur
continuing from Day 1 where we covered the history of AI and GPT family,...
A Wellbeing Day at Redgate
By Steve Jones
It’s a day off for Redgate today. This is our annual wellbeing day, where...
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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
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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