Activity Monitor and Profiler
Today I came across a link to a neat little script for SQL 2005 / 2008 to help derive the head...
2011-07-28
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Blog Posts
Activity Monitor and Profiler
Today I came across a link to a neat little script for SQL 2005 / 2008 to help derive the head blocker in a blocking chain. That script can...
2011-07-28
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Bad Admins: Non-Production Servers
This is part of a series of tips on how bad/rogue admins can get access to the data in your...
2011-07-28
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Do You Work for #1?
Someone recently asked me if I would work for a company if I didn’t believe in their products or services...
2011-07-28
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How to move Cluster MSDTC Drive
I recently had the need to move the MSDTC for a cluster to a new SAN drive. It’s a quite simple...
2011-07-28
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T-SQL refactoring
Keeping your SQL objects’ naming rules during furious development is hard. New levels of information are added continuously, entities are...
2011-07-28
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When Did That Restore Finish?
I saw this question come across Twitter under the #sqlhelp tag one day and was wondering myself. Someone suggested the...
2011-07-28
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Exceptional DBA of the Year 2011 - Please vote for Jeff Moden
Every year Redgate has a competition to find the most
exceptional DBA of the year. This year too they are conducting....
2011-07-27
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Lookup functions in SSRS 2008 R2 - II
Introduction
In my last post on Lookup functions related to SSRS 2008 R2, I had explained Lookup(). It is used to...
2011-07-27
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Preparing for #sqlsat81
SQL Saturday 81 is coming up this weekend in Birmingham AL. This will be my 5th SQL Saturday to speak...
2011-07-27
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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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Question of the Day
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