SQL Bits Training Day
By David Postlethwaite
Just spent a day with Allen White, a SQL MVP from Ohio, USA learning about automating and managing...
2011-09-29
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Blog Posts
SSIS For Each Column in a Data flow
Previously I wrote a blog on how to do a for each loop to look through each col in an...
2011-09-29
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The Two Day Adjustment
I made it to Cambridge and actually feel OK. I wonder how I’ll feel tomorrow, but the two day adjustment...
2011-09-29
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Change Database Owner
This is post is going to be very simple but it is something I come across ever so often and...
2011-09-28
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Consultants: 1099 or W-2?
As a consultant or contractor, you can sometimes be faced with the decision when taking a new contract of whether...
2011-09-28
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David’s SQLBITS Day 1–The Travel Day
Just had a pleasurable 5 hours watching the Autumn countryside go by on a glorious sunny day (in fact its...
2011-09-28
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Format Disk for SQL Server
Managing large SQL Server inventories requires standardisation. Do your research , create the scripts , and apply.
Occasionally, custom changes are required . This...
2011-09-28
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Online index rebuilds
G’day,
I’m probably not the only one that has noticed that as the volume of data gets bigger in out databases,...
2011-09-28
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Posting This Week
I just wanted to do a quick post to let everyone know that I am in fact going to be...
2011-09-28
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RTO in Disaster Recovery
When you have a disaster, the time that you have to restore service is usually referred to as the RTO...
2011-09-28
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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
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Guarding Against SQL Injection at the Database Layer (SQL Server)
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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
Question of the Day
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