SQL Server Object Dependency Viewer Revisited
A year ago I blogged about building a SQL Server 2008 Object Dependency Viewer based on a script by PowerShell...
2010-08-07
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Blog Posts
Week in Review - August 8, 2010
This post is the first in a new weekly series meant to give my readers some insight into my week....
2010-08-07
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eReaders - Kindle v Nook v iPad
A friend of my wife’s posted a note asking what people thought of the various devices and which one would...
2010-08-06
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Free SQL Server Training for the Week of August 9, 2010
Monday
SQL Lunch - SSIS Design Patterns 1a: Introduction to SSIS Design Patterns - Andy Leonard
Tuesday
PASS Application Development Virtual Chapter - Where the bl**dy...
2010-08-06
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Hands Off System Databases
I saw a post earlier this week from Buck Woody called Don’t Mess with the System Databases and I agree....
2010-08-06
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Inconsistent NullIF Behaviour ?
NullIf can be a very handy function sometimes. For those who have not used it, if the result of the...
2010-08-06
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Planning for Maintenance
On Monday, Microsoft released an out-of-band security patch to address the .LNK vulnerability. This affects Windows XP, including Windows XP...
2010-08-06
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Simple Script to Determine Who To Kill (SPIDs)
I'm mostly working now supporting the building of SSIS packages for ETL. And on one particular project we've been making heavy...
2010-08-06
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SQL Saturday #28 Update
We are just about a week away from probably the biggest FREE training event to ever take place in Baton...
2010-08-06
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The Inteview is Done
I completed my interview for the PASS board election today. I don’t want to talk about what was in the...
2010-08-06
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
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would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I'm thinking about submitting some articles
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
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