2004-11-11
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Steve Jones
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2004-11-10
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2004-11-09
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Worst Practice - Detailed Disaster Plans
Another in our series of things you should avoid at all costs. Seems silly at first, not having a detailed recovery plan for your SQL Server. Perhaps it is, but having dealt with any number of problems over the last few years, Steve Jones has some ideas why a detailed plan may not be the best thing to spend your time on.
2004-11-09
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Divide and Conquer
This is the first article by Steve Jones that examines a programming technique for handling operations that may be too large to run in a single query.
2004-11-05 (first published: 2001-05-09)
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2004-11-05
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2004-11-04
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2004-10-28
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2004-10-27
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2004-10-26
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Restoring On Top II
I have a database, DNRTest, that has a number of tables and other objects in it. The other day, I was trying to mock up a test and ran this code on the same server:
-- run yesterday CREATE DATABASE DNRTest2 GO USE DNRTest2 GO CREATE TABLE NewTable (id INT) GOToday, I realize that I need a copy of DNRTest for another mockup, and I run this:
-- run today USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest2 FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens? See possible answers