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On the Internet, the Walls Have Ears

I received a sobering reminder this week of a lesson we all have learned or should have learned long ago. Something I said online came back around months later...

2025-03-26 (first published: )

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T-SQL Tuesday 184 - Mentorship

T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Deborah Melkin
(blog) asks us to talk about our relationship with mentoring and...

2025-03-11

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The Mysterious Empty Table

It seems like no matter how long you work with a system beyond a trivial size, you’ll find something new every so often. A little while ago, I found...

2025-02-26 (first published: )

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SQL Query Stats via Powershell

Sometimes, work tasks and questions that come up in the SQL Server Community Slack coincide.
A couple weeks ago, DrData asked
With SET STATISTICS IO ON, is there really no way...

2024-10-07 (first published: )

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SQL Saturday Syracuse 2024 Recap

First Things First Thanks to every who came to my session, Asnwering the Auditor’s Call with Automation. Slides and scripts are posted to my Github.
The Event! This was Syracuse’s...

2024-09-08

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Question of the Day

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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