PASS Summit Eval – Extended Events
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I had two sessions at the PASS Summit this past year in which I...
2012-01-05
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Blog Posts
Safely Restart SQL Agent with Powershell
I recently had to enable tokens in SQL Agent across about 50 instances. Unfortunately, enabling tokens requires a SQL Agent...
2012-01-05
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SQL Server Disable Indexes and Rebuild Indexes dynamically
To generate the ALTER INDEX..DISABLE and the ALTER INDEX..REBUILD statements for all nonclustered indexes for a single table use the...
2012-01-05
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SQL Server Login Auditing
In recent months I have been asked to ensure we are auditing both successful and failed logins, not just failed...
2012-01-05 (first published: 2012-01-03)
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The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered.
You may fire up the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (which allows you to run PowerShell commands to do cool SharePoint...
2012-01-05
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Daemon
At the recommendation of Jorge Segarra (Blog | Twitter), I got the book Daemon. Well, I actually got that about a year ago as a gift – but it...
2012-01-04
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Daemon
At the recommendation of Jorge Segarra (Blog | Twitter), I got the book Daemon. Well, I actually got that about a...
2012-01-04
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Difference between ETL and ELT
ETL is the most common method used when transferring data from a source system to a data warehouse. But there...
2012-01-04
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Have You Planned Which SQL Server Events You Will be Attending in 2012?
2012 is already upon us and I have been busy working on my travel schedule for this year. It is...
2012-01-04
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Increase SQL Server Error Log Files
Recently I learned that you can and probably should increase the number of SQL Server Error logs that your instance...
2012-01-04 (first published: 2011-12-30)
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Blogs
The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out...
Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
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would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
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Not Just an Upgrade
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Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers