Daily SQL Server 2008 New Feature – Day 20
Every day for the next couple of weeks, I aim to highlight one of SQL Server 2008’s new features, simply...
2010-06-10
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Blog Posts
I’m a Pain
Or maybe I’m misreading that I’m supposed to be helping to alleviate pain. Either way, next Thursday, June 17, I’ll be...
2010-06-10
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Interesting Case of SSIS Failures
Interesting Case of SSIS Failures
We had an interesting case of SSIS failures recently where the cause ended up being improved...
2010-06-10
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Killer I/O
Here’s a big statement
WHEN WRITING DATABASE QUERIES, 95% OF THE TIME THE BOTTLENECK IS IN THE I/O, not the CPU,...
2010-06-10
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My Anonymity is Fading
I’ve done a good amount to raise my profile over the years. Not with that intention, but as I’ve tried...
2010-06-10
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Next, Next, Next - Is SQL Server Installation In Need of a Warning Window to Avoid the Risk of Excess Instances?
After Reading Brad MacGehee's comments on TechEd conference today, I left a short but poignant comment that I hope will...
2010-06-10
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No Respect for IT
I saw this link posted by Buck Woody (blog | Twitter) and I was a little stunned. This is a profile...
2010-06-10
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PowerShell I Heart You
PowerShell = Giggity Giggity Goo
Ok so in the last 48 hours I think I’ve fallen madly in love with PowerShell. My...
2010-06-10
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Presenting At OPASS June 15
On Tuesday, June 15, I'm presenting Paging DR Availability, You're Wanted in the Recovery Room at the Orlando SQL Server...
2010-06-10
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SSC Editorial – Limited Features or Limited Time
This editorial for the SSC newsletter ran last week and talks about the conundrum for software vendors – how do you...
2010-06-10
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Blogs
TempDB Internals – What’s New (SQL Server 2016 to 2022)
By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
AI: 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