Changing Directions
I See Dead Tech….
Knowing when a technology is dying is always a good skill to have. Like most of my...
2011-04-01
916 reads
Wesley Brown
- Interests: Collecting old computers
- Skills: I talk a lot.
The Mystery Of The Slow Last Row
Things Go South
Recently I was troubleshooting a piece of software that archives data out of a very active import table....
2011-03-29
2,259 reads
The Mystery Of The Slow Last Row
Things Go South
Recently I was troubleshooting a piece of software that archives data out of a very active import table....
2011-03-25
1,696 reads
Fast File Copy With Managed Code: UBCopy update!
If you have been following my trials with working with C# and files you know it hasn’t been a bed...
2011-03-24
1,128 reads
SQLDIY: Alert On Blocking Chains
Continuing the SQLDIY monitoring project we will take a look at tracking blocking events. I actually received a request to...
2011-03-01
2,864 reads
Fundamentals of Storage Systems, IO Latency and SQL Server
A Thousand Men Marching Still Only March As Fast As One Man.
la·ten·cy - Computers . the time required to locate the first bit or character in a storage location, expressed as access timeminus word time.
Often when talking to people...
2011-03-01
3,045 reads
My Upcoming Schedule, Come Get Your Learn On!
It’s official, I’ll be speaking at SQLSaturday #63 April 2nd. It is something near and dear to my heart, solid state storage....
2011-02-28
1,350 reads
Fundamentals of Storage Systems, IO Latency and SQL Server
A Thousand Men Marching Still Only March As Fast As One Man.
la·ten·cy - Computers . the time required to locate the first bit or character in a storage location, expressed as access timeminus word time.
Often when talking to people...
2011-02-23
3,092 reads
SQLDIY: Manage and Monitor SQL Server Yourself
As an old school DBA and always having cheap frugal employers, I have rolled my own management and monitoring solutions....
2011-02-22
575 reads
Moore’s Law May Be The Death of NAND Flash
"It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t...
2011-02-21
1,009 reads
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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A Quick Restore
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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