Dedicated Administrator Connection
Recently you may have read my article about some hidden functions in SQL Server. In that article you learned that...
2012-01-19
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Blog Posts
How to let non-admin business users run replication agent jobs
This blog post is basic in nature but highlights a very real requirement that may arise when administering replication. Occasionally...
2012-01-19 (first published: 2012-01-13)
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Introducing “X on XMLA”
XMLA or XML for Analysis is used in SQL Server Analysis Services and other multidimensional data systems to manage the...
2012-01-19
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Master Data Services 2012
As I mentioned in a pervious post Master Data Services for SQL 2012 is a huge improvement over the SQL...
2012-01-19
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Session Code – Extending Reporting Services with Custom Code
This is my wish list of things I’d like to cover in todays session at 11 AM EST https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/935071481 but...
2012-01-19
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SQL Server – Powershell Excel to HTML
SQL Server, Powershell and Excel are a good mix . But saving to Powershell output to HTML is versatile – if requiring...
2012-01-19
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SSRS Tip: Hide a tablix if no rows returned
I have a tablix in an SSRS report, populated by a query that might or might not return any rows. ...
2012-01-19
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The Hockey Team to Represent a Truly Bilingual City: Let’s Give Cunneyworth The Proper Chance He Deserves to Lead the Canadiens to a Stanley Cup Someday as Al McNeil Did in 1971
The Media in Quebec has opened up 2012 with a continuation of what it wishes to disseminate, or more probably,...
2012-01-19
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Blackout
What more can I say. I disagree with the kind of legislation that is being presented via SOPA and PIPA. In support of the community, my site will be...
2012-01-18
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Blackout
What more can I say. I disagree with the kind of legislation that is being presented via SOPA and PIPA.
In...
2012-01-18
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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,...
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