Backing up virtual machines on VMware ESX Server
I know VMware and Virtual Server
technology is becoming more and more prevalent in organizations as both
packages can greatly reduce hardware...
2006-05-17
1,615 reads
Brian Kelley
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Nice Article on Security Myths in May/June 2006 Issue of TechNet Magazine
The May/Jone 2006 issue of TechNet Magazine has a feature on security. One of the articles is titled Deconstructing Common...
2006-05-12
1,532 reads
Services for SQL Server 2000
In this article, Brian Kelley focuses on learning the various services in SQL Server. He also covers the security needed to make them work.
2006-05-12 (first published: 2002-01-03)
50,820 reads
Review of SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, Part 1 of 4
Back in First Impressions of Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services,
I indicated I felt the book was worth the buy...
2006-05-10
1,457 reads
Excellent article on cracking SQL Server passwords
The SQLServerAdvisor mailing from SearchSQLServer.com had a link to a
very good article on cracking SQL Server passwords. The article, by
Kevin...
2006-05-09
1,598 reads
Share Your OPML
Dave Winer announced bringing back Share Your OPML
on Friday. I wasn't keeping up with many RSS feeds back when the
original...
2006-05-08
1,553 reads
Security Awareness for Developers - What would you include?
If you were putting together a security awareness training program for
developers, what aspects of SQL Server security would you include?...
2006-05-06
1,843 reads
Going to TechEd 2006 in Boston!
As of right now, it looks like I'm going to TechEd 2006 in Boston. If you're going to be there...
2006-05-05
1,459 reads
Scaling out SQL Server 2005 article
This article appeared just recently on MSDN:
Scaling Out SQL Server 2005
It's a relatively high level document which covers how to...
2006-05-05
1,549 reads
SysInternals EULA Updated
The SysInternals licensing has been updated on the SysInternals website.
The new licensing is something you'll want to take a look...
2006-05-05
1,473 reads
Blogs
TempDB Internals – What’s New (SQL Server 2016 to 2022)
By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 2: Generative AI, Multimodal Systems, and Agent AI
By Vinay Thakur
continuing from Day 1 where we covered the history of AI and GPT family,...
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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