Database Mirroring Error
I have been setting up multi instance database mirroring for the last couple of days along with some other DR...
2012-10-26
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Blog Posts
DBA Question of the Day: Statistic
http://www.flickr.com/photos/_barney/5177975707/Hello Dear Reader, yesterday I posed the question to you what are Statistics? We could get down and dirty of...
2012-10-26
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Decoding first, root, and FirstIAM in Sysindexes
Have you ever looked at the first, root, and FirstIAM columns in sysindexes and wondered…
“What do these values mean?”
Recently, I...
2012-10-26 (first published: 2012-10-23)
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How do I find all stored procedures or views that use a specific table?
Many years ago when I was still working on SQL 2000 I occasionally needed to find all stored procedures and views...
2012-10-26
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2012-10-26
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Reblog: October 19 to October 25
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2012-10-26
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Scary Reading List for Halloween
I know I focus on community, SQL Server, professional development and process. But you need to do other stuff occasionally...
2012-10-26
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SQL Server 2012 SSAS .. 'Yes we can' use one instance for both the tabular and multi dimensional models
As most of us are aware, each instance of SSAS 2012 may be run in either tabular or multidimensional mode (and...
2012-10-26
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Understanding Server Hardware Course from Pluralsight
My first training course from Pluralsight, Understanding Server Hardware has just gone live. It is listed in the SQL Server...
2012-10-26
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Using Invoke-WebRequest
The website PowershellCommunity.org is moving to a new site poweshell.org and I wasn’t sure the old forum posts will be...
2012-10-26
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Blogs
A Wellbeing Day at Redgate
By Steve Jones
It’s a day off for Redgate today. This is our annual wellbeing day, where...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server 2025 Unleashed Training Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, March 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server 2025 Unleashed:...
What is ALM in Fabric?
By HeyMo0sh
As someone who’s worked with data for over 20 years and with many cloud...
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A Quick Restore
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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
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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