The Hollywood DBA
I’m delighted to welcome a fellow Brit to the blog to share their story in today’s guest post. Many of you will...
2012-07-18
994 reads
John Sansom
Lunch is for Wimps
A real life DBA tale from the trenches with some awesome advice. That’s what one reader chose to share with...
2012-07-03
1,259 reads
Guest Post – DBAvolution
One of my favourite things about the SQL community is the exquisite diversity of talent of it’s members. Today for the “What’s it...
2012-06-27
2,008 reads
Get Your Ass to PASS!
This year there are to be no excuses, and I mean it.
You know what I’m talking about. There’s always some...
2012-06-20
823 reads
Guest Post – The Last Starfighter
Today I am delighted to be able to share with you a guest post from one of my all time...
2012-06-13
1,203 reads
What’s it Like to Be a DBA?
Absolutely fantastic of course!
You regular readers know that the Becoming a DBA area of the blog is one of the...
2012-06-10
802 reads
Stop Asking and Start Making Decisions Today
You’re desperately trying to get things done but it’s just not happening for you. I’m going to let you in on a little secret, you’re doing it wrong!
2012-05-16
3,436 reads
Where Have all the DBAs and DB DEVs Gone?
Last week the SQL community and in particular the blogosphere, was buzzing with interest noise following the Microsoft Learning site...
2012-04-17
878 reads
How To Live Blog an Event
As the euphoria of SQLBits X sadly begins to fade, I wanted to take a moment to share with you...
2012-04-11
1,053 reads
SQL Server Instant File Initialization (PQW)
In this article we’re going to look at instant file initialization. What it is, why it’s cool and how you can use it in your environments.
2012-04-02
5,207 reads
Blogs
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As someone who’s worked with data for over 20 years and with many cloud...
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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