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2025-09-22 (first published: 2025-09-03)
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Last Updated on September 24, 2024 by John Morehouse Years ago, I saw the wave of the future and that wave was Cloud. The Cloud is not a fad...
2024-10-07 (first published: 2024-09-24)
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This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
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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 REPLACESee possible answers