How to Programmatically Identify When Your SQL Server Was Last Started
Greg Larsen shows you a quick trick to programmatically script a way to identify when SQL Server was last started.
2018-04-23
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Articles
Making Deployments Simpler with Re-runnable Scripts
Make sure your SQL Server database release scripts to make life easier.
2018-04-20 (first published: 2015-11-17)
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How to Show the Execution Plan of a Running Query
By looking at a query execution plan, you can determine which steps are used to resolve the query. But what if you just want to find out what the query plans are for only the queries that are currently running?
2018-04-20
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Do you check your backups?
Backups. Are you confident you can restore? Do you have a process that ensures you can recover your systems? Learn how one system works in the cloud.
2018-04-19
1,568 reads
SQL Server Graph Databases – Part 2: Querying Data in a Graph Database
Along with Graph Databases, Microsoft has introduced the new MATCH function for querying them. Robert Sheldon explains how to use the new function.
2018-04-19
3,455 reads
Why sp_prepare Isn’t as “Good” as sp_executesql for Performance
Erik Darling shows how execution plan estimates suffer.
2018-04-18
3,318 reads
Fixing system database corruption with setup.exe
Corruption of the system databases is a serious matter. Setup.exe is a brute force method of replacing them.
2018-04-17
976 reads
Recover Data in SQL Server AWS RDS with the Help of BACPAC
With Amazon RDS, it’s easy to have a SQL Server running in minutes. There are some limitations, though. Seth Delconte explains a workaround to overcome one of the limitations: the inability to restore a second copy of a database to recover missing data.
2018-04-17
2,672 reads
Using T-SQL to Detect Stock Price Reversals with the RSI
Rick Dobson explains the Relative Strength Index (RSI), and shows how to create a TSQL script that computes the RSI for a stock closing price series.
2018-04-16
3,074 reads
SSIS Design Pattern - Staging Fixed Width Flat Files
Learn how to load fixed width flat files to staging tables in this article from Samuel Vanga.
2018-04-13 (first published: 2015-10-06)
11,541 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