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Networking - Part 3

Continuing the conversation I began in Part 1 & Part 2, today I want to ruminate some more on networking. I've had a good discussions about networking since I wrote the first two parts, with a focus on the value of networking.

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2009-01-23

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Understanding Logging and Recovery in SQL Server

Logging and recovery are critical parts of SQL Server, but they are often poorly understood. Paul Randal gives an overview of how the logging and recovery features work in SQL Server and explains the transaction log and recovery models to help you maintain a better database.

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2009-01-23

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Blog: Disabling Log Shipping When the Secondary Server Doesn't Exist

Had a bit of an oddity show up during some testing today when trying to disable log shipping on the primary server using SSMS. My test scenario was such that our secondary server was not available any longer (had been renamed) and when I tried to disable the log shipping...

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2009-01-22

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Adding new column with DEFAULT II

Which number did the two COUNT(*) return:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp
CREATE TABLE #tmp (id INT NOT NULL)

INSERT INTO #tmp (id) 
SELECT gs.value
  FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 5) AS gs

ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD my_value INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 1

SELECT COUNT(*)  FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1

ALTER TABLE #tmp DROP CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value

ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 2 FOR my_value

SELECT COUNT(*)  FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1

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