2024-05-31
156 reads
Work environment
Multiple Display Productivity
How many monitors do you need? Steve notes that having multiple ones seems to be a standard these days for tech workers. Do more make you more productive? Answer the poll today.
2024-05-10
188 reads
The On-Call Load
Today Steve asks about on-call responsibility for you and how you view this as part of your job, or in your job search.
2024-05-03
148 reads
Missing the Office
Steve talks about being back in an office today, at a customer where everyone comes in every day.
2024-04-17
163 reads
Protecting Off Hours
There is new legislation in Australia that is supposed to allow employees to ignore messages outside of working hours. Steve has a few thoughts on how he balances his workload.
2024-03-18
195 reads
Un-Stable Teams
At Redgate, the teams change every year and Steve has a few reasons why this is good.
2024-02-12
188 reads
A Great Place to Work
Do you enjoy your workplace or employer? Steve does and has a few thoughts on what that is like for him.
2024-01-26
165 reads
Declining Work for Mental Health
A busy year got a little too busy for Steve and he is taking steps to improve his work life balance.
2023-10-20
156 reads
Flexible Work Policies are Preferred
New research says that companies with flexible work policies, hybrid or remote, find they are able to hire staff more quickly.
2023-08-04
95 reads
The Survivors
There have been a lot of layoffs in the last year. Steve has some empathy for both those let go and those that remain. He also reminds us to manage our own careers.
2023-04-28
162 reads
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