PowerShell: Redirecting Console Output and Error Output to a Variable and E-mailing it
I recently had the need to script the execution of a command-line utility and thought it would be a good...
2012-08-29 (first published: 2012-08-28)
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Blog Posts
Reporting on common code smells : A POC
Over the past few blog entries, I’ve been looking at parsing TSQL scripts in a variety of ways for a...
2012-08-29
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September 2012 Speaking Events
September is another busy month of speaking events for me and I thought I’d share them with you so maybe...
2012-08-29
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Southwest Missouri SQL Server Users Group to Have First Meeting in October
The Southwest Missouri SQL Server Users Group (SWMOSSUG) is dedicated to providing SQL Server Education and Career Guidance for IT...
2012-08-29
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SQL Audit 302 – Deploying the Audit Solution with Powershell
This is it, ladies and gentlemen. One last post and I promise I won’t mention the word audit for at...
2012-08-29
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SQL in the City – FREE Training
Is SQL in the City coming to a town near you? The events are being held in New York, Austin,...
2012-08-29
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A Novel Workaround for an Infamous SSAS Connection Error
For months I’ve been itching to get the latest version of SQL Server, thanks to the addition of new functionality...
2012-08-28
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Lookup transformation in SSIS: Performance Improvements
There are 2 suggestions I hear about when performance tuning the Lookup transformation on a large dimension table when getting...
2012-08-28
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Minnesota SQL Saturday (#SQLSat149)
It’s close to that time of year again. It’s time for a SQL Saturday in Minnesota and this… it isn’t...
2012-08-28
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Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) How-To: Check Database Size with DBCC_pdw_showspaceused
There is a way to view the size of a particular PDW database using the DBCC_pdw_showspaceused command via the NEXUS...
2012-08-28
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Blogs
What is ALM in Fabric?
By HeyMo0sh
As someone who’s worked with data for over 20 years and with many cloud...
The Most Successful Startups in 2025 — And What They Have in Common
By HeyMo0sh
2025 belongs to the AI startups. If you peek into the tech headlines, you’ll...
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
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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