SQL Table Columns Disappear in Access
A couple weeks ago a user complained that on one of our development databases, one of the views he was...
2011-09-28
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Seth Phelabaum
Replication DDL Triggers
Because this was a problem that Google was zero help on and I did find a couple other people afflicted...
2011-09-21
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Normalize your Linked Server Names
This is a technique I’m sure many people are already using in their environments. Instead of using the actual name...
2011-09-14
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SSMS Tips & Tricks – Registered Server Groups
Here are a couple more SSMS tricks I’ve stumbled upon recently. Both involve the functionality of registered servers. If you...
2011-04-17
1,596 reads
SSMS Tips & Tricks – Scripting Multiple Objects
This is one that I figured most everyone would know, but repeatedly over the past couple weeks in my office,...
2011-04-02
1,349 reads
SSMS Tools Pack – Script Grid Results
Most of us like things that make our lives easier. When they’re free, it’s just that much sweeter. I would...
2011-02-13
1,579 reads
SSMS Tips and Tricks – ALTernative Highlighting
This isn’t exactly the best thing since bread (or even sliced bread for that matter), but I figured I’d share...
2011-02-07
1,314 reads
2010 Goals Review
So… this is late. And I missed my q3 goals review all together. Oh well, not much I can do...
2011-01-23
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2011 Goals
Last year I posted professional goals along with quite a few other bloggers and it helped to keep me somewhat...
2011-01-23
767 reads
Going to SQL Saturday #46 in Raleigh, NC
So, after a rather hectic few months, I’m finally crawling back out of the hole I’ve been occupying and getting...
2010-09-16
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
A Quick Restore
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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
Question of the Day
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