Struggling With Due Diligence
It’s been a while since my last post, there are various reasons for my absence: work, illness, having our house...
2016-06-23
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SQL Swimmer
Did you know?
Did you know that the call for speakers for PASS Summit 2016 opened on February 3, 2016?
Did you know that...
2016-02-15
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What is Power BI?
One of the “benefits” of being a chapter leader is that sometimes it means doing a presentation yourself when you...
2016-02-02 (first published: 2016-01-25)
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What Do You Want?
It’s that time of year, planning for PASS Summit 2016. We’ve already put out the Call for Volunteers, which closes...
2016-01-22
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We Want You!
It seems like PASS Summit 2015 was just yesterday and here we are again, getting ready for Summit 2016 already. ...
2016-01-08
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Scripts – A Living History
As a DBA, I have a collection of scripts that I use for anything from auto-fixing logins to seeing who...
2015-11-20
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Aggregation Design is Back!
If you use SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) and SQL Server Data Tools – BI (SSDT-BI) for your SQL Server 2012...
2015-11-19
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One Tool to Rule Them All – Almost
There we so many cool announcements at the PASS Summit this year, but one of my favorites was the “One...
2015-11-18
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My Build and Deploy Process (as Requested by Bill Fellows)
Recently I attended Reg-Gate’s SQL in the City event in Seattle, WA. I was in Seattle for the annual PASS...
2015-11-10 (first published: 2015-11-05)
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The Whirlwind That Is October – Part 3
October has been such a whirlwind of PASS activity for me. Two SQL Saturdays and the PASS Summit. This post...
2015-11-03
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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
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