A Perfect Solution to Resolve SQL Server Error 211
SQL Server Schema is basically a collection of SQL Objects that includes the tables, related columns, its entries, or other components. Due to this, it becomes easy for a...
2018-04-30
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Blog Posts
Bring Your Own Key to Azure SQL Database TDE
I have previously written about using Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Azure Key Vaule as a great way to store...
2018-04-30 (first published: 2018-04-19)
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Finding Untrusted Foreign Keys and Constraints
In the previous blog, we discussed the Foreign Keys Constraints and how the CHECK Constraints are useful to verify the...
2018-04-30 (first published: 2018-04-19)
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Guide for Setting up Telegraf to Monitor InfluxDB
Problem
If you been reading this series you are used to looking at Windows and SQL Server but who knows what...
2018-04-30
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Guide for Setting up Telegraf to Monitor InfluxDB
Problem
If you been reading this series you are used to looking at Windows and SQL Server but who knows what...
2018-04-30
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Security: Create and view Audit Logs
It is important to have a secure environment, enforcing the least privilege principle in your servers and databases, but this...
2018-04-30
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Shiny Tech Syndrome
This is the name I give to anyone who, whilst learning a new technology, suddenly thinks it’s the best thing...
2018-04-30
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SQL Server Removing Outliers With Standard Deviation
When running aggregations for reporting in some situations outliers can throw out the numbers.
For example lets say we have a...
2018-04-30
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Export data from Cosmos DB to SQL Server
Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s latest NoSQL database offering low latency, high scalability and geo-distribution to any Azure region. Read Microsoft...
2018-04-29
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Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB
What is Azure Cosmos DB?
Cosmos DB started as an internal project – “Project Florence” – at Microsoft in 2010. It is a...
2018-04-29
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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