Monitoring Your Databases and Servers and…
You absolutely need to know about the servers you have under management in your estate. You need to know about the databases. Uptime, performance, behaviors, errors, corruption and a...
2019-03-19
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The Scary DBA
Compliance Ain’t Easy
I’m sure by now you’ve heard of the GDPR and some of the large scale data breaches that have occurred...
2019-03-18
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Compliance Ain’t Easy
I’m sure by now you’ve heard of the GDPR and some of the large scale data breaches that have occurred within it. If you haven’t heard of the GDPR,...
2019-03-18
11 reads
Database Development Gone Wrong
I recently shared a story about how I was personally responsible for a development project going off the rails (and...
2019-03-13
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Database Development Gone Wrong
I recently shared a story about how I was personally responsible for a development project going off the rails (and oh boy, did it go off the rails). It’s...
2019-03-13
4 reads
Missing Indexes in the Query Store
I’ve shown before how to use the DMVs that read the plan cache as a way to connect the missing...
2019-03-22 (first published: 2019-03-11)
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Missing Indexes in the Query Store
I’ve shown before how to use the DMVs that read the plan cache as a way to connect the missing indexes suggestions with specific queries, but the other place...
2019-03-11
24 reads
system_health Extended Events in Azure SQL Database
The system_health Extended Events session is incredibly useful. Further, it’s running, by default, in every server you have under management...
2019-03-04
499 reads
system_health Extended Events in Azure SQL Database
The system_health Extended Events session is incredibly useful. Further, it’s running, by default, in every server you have under management that is 2008 or greater. Things are not the...
2019-03-04
8 reads
How Do You Export A Database in Azure Data Studio
I’ve been writing a bunch about Azure Data Studio. I’ve also been recording videos on the topic. A comment I...
2019-03-13 (first published: 2019-02-25)
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Blogs
The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out...
Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
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Not Just an Upgrade
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top I
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