So Long and Thanks For All The Fish
Not to try and steal Satya Nadella’s thunder today at WPC but I’ve got some exciting news of my own to share. I’m excited to say that I’ll be...
2014-07-16
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Blog Posts
Track Incomplete Statements
What about when statements are sitting in your server, uncompleted and not moving, just hogging resources? Use this script for...
2014-07-16
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Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 22
Had our second planning meeting, still trying to complete the email template and realized we had not clearly defined two...
2014-07-15
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PASS SQL Saturday Events: August 2014
DateEventAugust 2 SQLSaturday #324 – Baton Rouge 2014August 9 SQLSaturday #304 – Indianapolis 2014August 23 SQLSaturday #328 – Birmingham 2014August 23 SQLSaturday #309...
2014-07-15
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SQL Prompt – The Power Within
*Photo by Red Gate
Come a little closer; no seriously come on over just a little closer as I don’t want...
2014-07-15
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Understanding Analysis Services Relationships using Dimension Usage
As a part of designing an Analysis Services cube you must define how each dimension is related to each measure...
2014-07-15
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What does it mean that a value is NULL?
Let’s start by assuming that ANSI_NULLS are ON. If you aren’t sure what ANSI_NULLS are exactly, don’t worry, I’ll be...
2014-07-15 (first published: 2014-07-14)
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End of Mainstream Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2
@DBA_ANDY: A reminder to all #sqlserver peeps out there and *especially* to our clients: #sql2008 #sql20008R2 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlreleaseservices/archive/2014/07/09/end-of-mainstream-support-for-sql-server-2008-and-sql-server-2008-r2.aspx#Ntirety
Original Message:
http://twitter.com/DBA_ANDY/status/488744595136999424
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What does...
2014-07-14
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How to restore MSDB & MODEL database – SQL Server System Databases?
The msdb database is used by SQL Server Agent for scheduling alerts and jobs and by other features such as...
2014-07-14
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How to restore MSDB & MODEL database – SQL Server System Databases?
The msdb database is used by SQL Server Agent for scheduling alerts and jobs and by other features such as SQL Server Management Studio, Service Broker and Database Mail....
2014-07-14
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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