Endi Zhupani is a university graduate from Tirana with a degree in Information Systems. He currently works for Pragmatic Software, a company in Tirana that develops transaction and operation management systems as web applications. Throughout his entire development experience, Q&A and blog posts from other developers have saved my day more times that he can count, so he thought he’d start giving back by writing about my work and solutions he has come up with for some interesting problems.

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t-sql random string generator

Note: originally published in our old blog on December 2008.

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This is a simple stored procedure that you can use to generate a random string. You can use it...

2016-10-31

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Syncing QA data with Production

Applies to: xSQL Data Compare v7.0.0 and higher

WARNING: this article focuses on the data transfer / synchronization task and does not address operation security issues and sensitive data scrubbing /...

2016-10-20

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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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