New Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 R2
Late Monday night (October 18, 2010), Microsoft released the latest Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2005 and for SQL Server...
2010-10-20
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Glenn Berry
This is What Task Manager Looks Like When You Restart the SQL Server Service
This is what Task Manager looks like in Windows Server 2008 R2 when you restart the SQL Server Service. This...
2010-10-19
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Birds of a Feather Lunch at PASS 2010 Summit
The volunteers at PASS (especially Mike Walsh) have organized another “Birds of a Feather” lunch event on Tuesday, November 9...
2010-10-13
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What are Physical Sockets, Physical Cores, and Logical Cores and Why Does it matter?
I witnessed a confused conversation on Twitter today where someone was talking about how he uses the terms sockets and...
2010-10-09
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SQL Server Memory Related Queries
What is using all of my memory in SQL Server? If you ever believe that you are seeing signs of...
2010-10-08
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CPU-Z Support For Sandy Bridge Processors
The CPUID website has a screenshot of CPU-Z 1.55.2, showing its support for the upcoming 32nm Sandy Bridge processor, which...
2010-10-04
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Stupid Tech Support Tales
One of our desktop support technicians noticed the following error from a 3rd party vendor application in an error log:
"9/22/2010...
2010-09-30
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Geekbench 2.1.7 Released
If you read my blog or follow me on Twitter, you know that I have a strong interest in database...
2010-09-30
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A Small Selection of SQL Azure System Queries
I had a question come up during my “Getting Started with SQL Azure” presentation at SQLSaturday #52 in Denver last...
2010-09-29
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Windows Power Plans and CPU Performance
Back in February, 2010, I did some preliminary testing on the effects of various BIOS settings and Windows Power Plans...
2010-09-28
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
Deployment Pipelines in Fabric – What Are They?
By HeyMo0sh
In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as...
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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