They Can Do What? – SHUTDOWN - WaterOx Consulting
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2015-04-29
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Blog Posts
Tracking Table Usage and Identifying Unused Objects
One of the things I hate the most about “old” databases is the fact that unused tables are kept forever,...
2015-04-29 (first published: 2015-04-20)
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Using SSIS Lookup Transformation in ETL Packages
Lookup is one of many transformations available in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). Its purpose is to perform a JOIN of...
2015-04-29
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Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 52 (“What’s new for Columnstore XE in SQL Server 2014 SP1”)
Continuation from the previous 51 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/
Microsoft has launched Service Pack 1 for...
2015-04-28
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Exam Prep 70-463: Master Data Services Models
This post is part of a series on this blog that will help me, and hopefully you, pass exam 70-463: Implementing...
2015-04-28 (first published: 2015-04-16)
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Moving SQL Server data between filegroups – Part 2 – The implementation
In this post we are going to show the implementation of a PowerShell script using SMO to move data between filegroups on SQL Server. This article is the second of our...
2015-04-28
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Restoring a database that doesn’t exist
When restoring a database that doesn’t exist, say for instance when a client sends a database to you, you can’t...
2015-04-28
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Restoring a database that doesn't exist
When restoring a database that doesn't exist, say for instance when a client sends a database to you, you can't...
2015-04-28
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T-SQL Tuesday #65 – Learning Computed Columns for XML
It’s T-SQL Tuesday time again, and this month the invite comes from Mike Donnelly (@sqlmd). The topic is Teach Something...
2015-04-28 (first published: 2015-04-14)
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Use PsPing When Working in Azure IaaS
Recently I’ve been learning more about how Azure functions and how it can help my customers. One of the best...
2015-04-28
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
Deployment Pipelines in Fabric – What Are They?
By HeyMo0sh
In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as...
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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