Determining Active Directory Group Membership
As discussed in my previous post I prefer to use Windows authentication over SQL authentication on my SQL Servers. There...
2012-01-24
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As discussed in my previous post I prefer to use Windows authentication over SQL authentication on my SQL Servers. There...
2012-01-24
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Security is a very important part of every DBA’s role. If you are not clued up on security best practices...
2012-01-23
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Today's post is a follow on from one earlier this month Database uplevel Restores. I got round to testing restoring...
2012-01-20
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I had a problem just before the festive period where one of our production SQL Servers was randomly grinding to...
2012-01-18
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Today’s post is a quick one as I am a bit under the cosh.
There are many ways to move database...
2012-01-13
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I've been using 4 alerts for corruption now for about 2 years for Errors 823, 824, 825 and 9100. Basically...
2012-01-11
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I have, in the past had the need to rename a server, either because the server has been named incorrectly...
2012-01-10
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Today I've been reading Paul Randal's collection of Blogs from a series called A SQL Server DBA myth a day....
2012-01-06
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I read a blog post this morning on SQLServerCentral by Tim Radney about SQL Server Error Logs. Tim talks about...
2012-01-04
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I came across an issue on a server this morning where a drive had run out of free space. Now given...
2012-01-03
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By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
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I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers