Welcome to a new year, and a new look at what I’ve learned in my time as a beginner and junior DBA. So, I’ve been in this DBA gig...
2021-01-28 (first published: 2021-01-19)
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TL;DR – It was great and not great I think we can all pretty much agree that in some regards 2020 was horrible, globally. So lets move on… Good...
2021-01-01
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This is a guest post by another friend of Dallas DBAs – Brendan Mason (L|T) Upgrading and migrating databases can be a daunting exercise if it’s not something you...
2020-12-22
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Today’s post is a guest article from a friend of Dallas DBAs, writer, and fantastic DBA Jules Behrens (B|L) One common performance issue that is not well known that...
2020-12-07 (first published: 2020-11-24)
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Video walkthrough of renaming or “flipping” databases to minimize down time during a refresh. Most commonly when moving a copy from prod to dev. My Pluralsight courses for new...
2020-10-12
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My Favorite and Recommended Training Resources As I’ve been in intense, focused SQL Server training for the last year, I thought it would be a great time to share...
2020-07-31 (first published: 2020-07-21)
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T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party for the SQL Server community. It is the brainchild of Adam Machanic (b|t) and this month’s edition is hosted by Kerry Tyler...
2020-07-22 (first published: 2020-07-14)
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Whoo! It’s been six months since my last post. There are reasons for this, none of which are probably valid, but it’s the way it is. I’ve been a...
2020-07-13 (first published: 2020-06-30)
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My Pluralsight course for new SQL Server DBAs (Needs to upgrade to a bigger bowl) Common scenario: Company is using SQL Server Express to save on licensing costs...
2020-07-02
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We have a double feature for today’s dbatools blog post, as these two commands go hand-in-hand. Todays commands: Dismount-DbaDatabase and Mount-DbaDatabase Detach-DbaDatabase and Attach-DbaDatabase can be used as aliases....
2020-07-01 (first published: 2020-06-24)
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By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
By Vinay Thakur
continuing from Day 1 where we covered the history of AI and GPT family,...
By Steve Jones
It’s a day off for Redgate today. This is our annual wellbeing day, where...
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I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
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