Interest In SQL Server Seems To Be Declining?
Amusing myself for a minute at Google Trends. Anyone missing 2005?
2014-02-17 (first published: 2014-02-12)
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SQLAndy
Review: Tell Me How I’m Doing
I found Tell Me How I’m Doing by Richard L. Williams at the local library. It’s a book about giving...
2014-02-11
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Building an SSMS Add-In Using Redgate Ecosystem
On Friday I was finally able to spend a couple hours looking at the Redgate Ecosystem, which is essentially a...
2014-02-10
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Presenting at Code Camp Orlando
I’ll be at Code Camp Orlando on March 22, 2014 doing a presentation on storing credit cards in SQL Server...
2014-02-05
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Presenting at SQLSaturday Tampa
The schedule just went up, I’ll be presenting PCI for the SQL DBA this year. Looking forward to visiting Tampa...
2014-02-05
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Renaming The Reporting Services TempDB Database
Strange that I’ve never had/wanted to do this before, helping someone do it today and renaming it causes everything to...
2014-02-03
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See Consolidated Data About SQLSaturday (Events, Sponsors, And Speakers)
Yesterday Kendal Van Dyke posted a file to Skydrive with consolidated information from all the events published so far. He...
2014-01-31
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Famous Move Quotes–Visualized
Ran across this poster of movie quotes – $20 will get you a copy. Why might you be interested? The visualizations...
2014-01-31
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Security, Compliance, and SQL Server – Recording Now Available
If you missed it live you get a second chance! http://www.mssqltips.com/sql-server-video/284/security-compliance-and-sql-server-video/. Had about 300 attend and more questions than we...
2014-01-30
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Uninstalling SSMS on Server Breaks SQL Powershell
I reviewed my daily report and saw that some jobs failed on six instances overnight, the common factor being that...
2014-01-30
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Blogs
TempDB Internals – What’s New (Sql Server 2016 to 2025)
By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
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