Moving the SQL replication snapshot folder
I recently addressed an issue where a client server's data volume was getting dangerously tight on free space. It contained...
2011-09-02
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Blog Posts
Parking Places & Editorials
Parking places, that’s the topic of my recent editorial on SSC. A simple topic, but one that most of us...
2011-09-02
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Plucking Wallflowers
Wallflowers Bloom
My friend Tim Mitchell wrote an awesome personal account a while back and shared it again recently. It’s a...
2011-09-02
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Pragmatic Works Foundation Class Oct 2011
I am super excited to announce that there is a strong demand for the Foundation Training to be held more...
2011-09-02
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Preventing projects from deploying when debugging a SSIS package
This is a quick tip to help quickly solve a problem I run into sometimes, and now that I am...
2011-09-02
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Re-blog – August 26-September 1
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-09-02
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SQL Server test data generation testing tools
Question: How do I generate test data for SQL Server ? I don’t want to buy a benchmarking tool, but I...
2011-09-02
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Testing Decisions
One of the things I like to do is take some time on decisions that matter to me. That’s a...
2011-09-02
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Variables and Expressions with Connections in SSIS
Variables and expressions help make any SSIS package dynamic and flexible. It is always a best practice to use variables...
2011-09-02
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Geekbench 2.2 Released
Primate Labs has released Geekbench 2.2.0, which is a free upgrade for Geekbench 2.1.x users. The release notes are here.
Here...
2011-09-01
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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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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
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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