Do We Understand Data?
With the recent issue of Facebook/Cambridge Analytica and GDPR, I ask do we really understand "data"?
2018-06-01
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Scott Crosby
The Politics of SQL Security
Dealing with SQL Server security when the application it uses is full of security holes.
2016-05-23
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Getting It Right First Time. Almost?
Mistakes happen but how can we minimize them and deal with them whey they do happen?
2014-08-05
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Wandering Towards The Lonely Cloud?
Are all RDBMS heading towards "The Cloud"? Is this something we DBAs and consultants should be doing for our client?
2014-06-05
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Blogs
Deployment Pipelines in Fabric – What Are They?
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In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as...
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I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
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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