May Question: What’s Your Backup Strategy?
As DBAs, one of our biggest responsibilities is to protect our data with backups. So, for this month’s question, “What’s...
2011-05-01
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Blog Posts
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 29
For Day 29 of this series, I am going to talk about some of the basic things that you should...
2011-04-30
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Download: Powershell a Day -April 2011
I you liked my Powershell a day – april 2011, where every day I wrote a blog about powershell you can...
2011-04-30
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Powershell Day 30
Day 30 Best Practice Having good Security is first best practice for any language no exception with Powershell. Having that...
2011-04-30
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A Royal Wedding: A Day Off
This is a little off topic:
Well Well, it’s the 29th April and all being well in about 2 hours from...
2011-04-29
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Antivirus solutions that are free
So my sister called me the other day to tell me she has a message on her laptop that said...
2011-04-29
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Learn T-SQL in 5 Minutes
I will be giving a five minute Lightning Talk at SQLRally in May that aims to do the impossible: Teach...
2011-04-29
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Love What You Do
I've been dealing with illness the last few weeks, probably due to the rather heavy pollen season here in South...
2011-04-29
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Physical Row Location
SQL Server 2008 has presented us a couple of options to aid in becoming better DBA’s. You can see this evidenced in many ways in the product. A couple...
2011-04-29
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Physical Row Location
SQL Server 2008 has presented us a couple of options to aid in becoming better DBA’s. You can see this...
2011-04-29
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Blogs
What is ALM in Fabric?
By HeyMo0sh
As someone who’s worked with data for over 20 years and with many cloud...
The Most Successful Startups in 2025 — And What They Have in Common
By HeyMo0sh
2025 belongs to the AI startups. If you peek into the tech headlines, you’ll...
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
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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
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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