This should be another quick one.

Earlier I saw a forum post where someone asserted that SQL always executes an update as a delete of the row and then an insert of the row with the new values. Now I need another excuse to play with undocumented features, so let’s… Read more

So we’re supposed to talk about disasters we’ve had or discuss disaster recovery technologies. I’m going to take a slightly different approach…

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I’m in the fortunate position of living in a region of the world that’s relatively free of natural disasters. We’re reasonably geologically stable, the nearest fault lines… Read more

There was a question earlier on one of the SQL forums as to whether or not Ghost Cleanup overwrote the deleted rows when it ran so as to ensure no one could read that data again.

Now I could just reference Paul Randal‘s blog post where he described Ghost… Read more