SQL Server 2012 Upgrade
SQL Server 2012 has been in RTM since the 1st April 2012. Many of my clients have been evaluating the...
2012-09-20
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Blog Posts
tablediff Utility
I recently stumbled across a little gem of a utility called tablediff. I have been working a lot with replication...
2012-09-20
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24 Hours of PASS
Tomorrow Brian Knight and I will kick off 24 hours of PASS with a session on Choosing a Microsoft Reporting...
2012-09-19
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Creating a User Defined Table Type
I saw a post about a user defined table type in SQL Server and I was sure it was a...
2012-09-19
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Database Recovery Advisor feature of SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2012 introduces Database Recovery Advisor that provides significant user experience improvements to the ways DBAs can restore databases...
2012-09-19
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Defining Variables
Querying Microsoft SQL Server : Defining Variables: Defining Variables in SQL Server: Like other programming languages T-SQL allows to defining your...
2012-09-19
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Lenovo–Three Strikes
Last Friday Lenovo told me my new laptop would ship this Monday, or “much much sooner”. Monday I called to...
2012-09-19
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Master Data Services: Expand the Leaf member attributes box
In Master Data Services (MDS), when using the Master Data Manager Web User Interface (“UI”), you will notice the “Leaf member...
2012-09-19
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Master Data Services: Versioning
In Master Data Services (MDS), you can create multiple versions of the master data within a model. When you create...
2012-09-19 (first published: 2012-09-17)
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SQL Server – Understanding ‘Agent XPs’ Server Configuration Option
Today we got an escalation where on one of the servers ‘Agent XPs’ was in a disabled state. And when...
2012-09-19
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Blogs
TempDB Internals – What’s New (Sql Server 2016 to 2025)
By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
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,...
A Wellbeing Day at Redgate
By Steve Jones
It’s a day off for Redgate today. This is our annual wellbeing day, where...
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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