SQL Server – Blocking a Truncate
The truncate option is fast and efficient but did you know that it takes a certain lock where you could...
2018-07-31
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The truncate option is fast and efficient but did you know that it takes a certain lock where you could...
2018-07-31
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PsPing tool is part of the sysinternals PsTools download found – ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psping) This is the tool of choice when wanting to...
2018-07-23
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The following post shows my preferred way to automate / schedule some code against my Azure SQL Database. No it is...
2018-07-16 (first published: 2018-07-09)
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If you read official Microsoft documentation about naming conventions for your SQL elastic pools, it is hard to find any...
2018-07-09 (first published: 2018-07-02)
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Forget about Adaptive Query Processing for a minute, what other feature have I been waiting for? SELECT INTO a specific...
2018-06-19
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Now that I have your attention with a powerful title how about some context? It is quite common to get...
2018-06-26 (first published: 2018-06-15)
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Hello all – I am excited to announce that I will be doing a Stairway series on Azure SQL Database hosted...
2018-06-13
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You may (or may not) have a requirement to setup a linked server to Azure SQL Database from a locally...
2018-06-13 (first published: 2018-06-05)
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So what is the default isolation level for Azure SQL Database? I ran the following code to check it out....
2018-05-30
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I was creating some demo non-clustered indexes in one of my Azure SQL Databases and received the following warning when...
2018-05-30 (first published: 2018-05-22)
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By HeyMo0sh
In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as...
By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
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I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
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