Statistics in Execution Plans
I was presenting on execution plans when another question came up that I didn’t know the answer to immediately. Yes,...
2011-09-20
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Blog Posts
Stored Procedures – Common Security Practice
In SQL Server a good practice is to access the data via calls through stored procedure. Have a look at the document available in that link. To further this...
2011-09-20
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Stored Procedures – Common Security Practice
In SQL Server a good practice is to access the data via calls through stored procedure. Have a look at...
2011-09-20
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The Barking Dog Analogy
The Barking Dog Analogy
Maggie and Woody
A discussion started today on Twitter about CXPacket waits. There had been a heated debate...
2011-09-20
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T-SQL Tuesday #22 Round-Up - Data Presentation
T-SQL Tuesday #22 is history, and I was pleased by the many posts and participants in this month’s September blog...
2011-09-20
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Updated Data Migration Assistants (5th Version Already) & Project Template to Help with Your Upgrades
After having spent much time attempting to settle a point regarding my favourite pastime of provincial politics, it has come...
2011-09-20
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Building a Visual Studio project from an existing SSAS database
Imagine you join a company, and there is an existing SSAS database that contains a few cubes that are working nicely. You...
2011-09-19
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Column Level Permissions
Did you know that you can grant permissions down to the column level in SQL Server? Well, if you didn’t know that – you do now. It is...
2011-09-19
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Column Level Permissions
Did you know that you can grant permissions down to the column level in SQL Server? Well, if you didn’t...
2011-09-19
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Database Snapshot as a Reporting Solution – Some Realtime Issues and Answers
One of Our production database is used by lots of Reporting users. Mirroring is enabled on this database. But no one is...
2011-09-19
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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