Vinoth is currently a Senior SQL Server DBA and 10 years of experience as SQL Server DBA. Started my career as a DBA in SQL 6.5/7 has worked in all subsequent SQL Server version. Vinoth has worked in some of the largest SQL server environments in the world in various domains ranging from Finance, Retail, Manufacturing, Consulting, Web etc. Vinoth has Engineering Degree in Computer Science and has certified in MCITP - Database Adminstrator in 2008/2005, MCDBA and ITIL Foundation V3.

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Replace NOT IN with JOIN

Example of how to replace NOT IN clause with JOIN

/*NOT IN query*/
USEAdventureWorks;GOSELECTProductIDFROMProduction.ProductWHEREProductIDNOTIN(SELECTProductIDFROMProduction.WorkOrder);

/*JOIN Query*/:-
SELECTp.ProductIDFROMProduction.ProductpLEFTJOINProduction.WorkOrderwONp.ProductID=w.ProductIDWHEREw.ProductIDISNULL;

2012-08-02

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Restoring On Top I

I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?

USE Master
BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak'
GO

USE DNRTest
GO
CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT)
GO
USE master
RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACE

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