Disk Drives in the Sky
Steve Jones talks today about storage innovations from the large cloud vendors and how that can relate to your job as a database professional.
2012-02-01
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Steve Jones
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Morale Data
Would any of you want to track your morale at work and have your boss access the data anonymously? Steve Jones think it's a good tool, but one that is easily abused.
2012-01-30
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2012-01-30
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2012-01-30
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Healthy Work Habits
Today Steve Jones talks a little about the work environment for IT workers. We ought to pay attention and ensure we are taking care of ourselves.
2012-01-26
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Enabling Compression? Update your baseline
I wrote recently about capacity planning, with an item near the end about disk usage. Someone pointed out to me...
2012-01-25
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No Cloud for Stack Exchange
The use of cloud computing isn't in the plans for the Stack Exchange network of sites? Steve Jones thinks they have a pretty cool reason not to use the cloud and he thinks you ought to have a similar view at work.
2012-01-25
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2012-01-25
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Back to Vegas
The DevConnections conference in the spring of 2012 is in Las Vegas, and Steve Jones is glad to be going.
2012-01-24
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RECONFIGURE can flush the procedure cache
I ran across this KB article the other day, which lists a few ways in which performance is affected by...
2012-01-24 (first published: 2012-01-19)
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Blogs
Whiling away an afternoon, thinking
By Steve Jones
I come to Heathrow often. Today is likely somewhere close to 60 trips to...
Black Box vs. Gray Box vs. White Box Testing
By Brian Kelley
If your organization is spending money, then meaningful results are a must. Pen testing...
Webinar Series – SQL Server Indexing
I’m starting a webinar series about SQL Server indexing with the fine folks of...
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Restoring On Top II
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SQL Art 2: St Patrick’s Day in SSMS (Shamrock + Pint + Pixel Text)
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Breaking Down Your Work
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Question of the Day
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