Will People Use This?
The cost of making a trip differently in the US, in terms of time, effort, and driving habits, is small....
2010-05-18
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Blog Posts
5 Features SQL Server Doesn’t Need
Paul Randal (@PaulRandal) started this chain of blog posts with his post, What 5 Things Should SQL Server Get Rid...
2010-05-17
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Daily SQL Server 2008 New Feature – Day 8
Every day for the next couple of weeks, I aim to highlight one of SQL Server 2008’s new features, simply...
2010-05-17
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Free ebooks
From Barnes and Noble. You can get them on a Nook, Blackberry, iPhone/Ipad, or PC. They are offering a few...
2010-05-17
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It's Free, It's Non-Stop, It's 24 Hrs of PASS
Yea, it's FREE, it's NoN-Stop, it's 24 hours of PASS! Many of the bloggers have wrote about 24 Hrs of...
2010-05-17
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LiveMeeting is Still Harder Than Live Meetings!
On Thursday I presented ‘Building a Comprehensive Professional Development Plan’ to the PASS Professional Development Chapter (#PASSProfDev on Twitter) via...
2010-05-17
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PowerShell Week at SQL University – Post 0
Welcome to PowerShell Week at SQL University. For regulars at SQLvariant, SQL University is something Jorge Segarra organized to get...
2010-05-17
1,057 reads
Some Data Compression Commands for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2
One of the more interesting and valuable features in SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition (and Datacenter Edition) is data...
2010-05-17
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Some Data Compression Commands for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2
One of the more interesting and valuable features in SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition (and Datacenter Edition) is data...
2010-05-17
1,238 reads
The Journeyman Certification
There has been quite a debate going on at SQLServerCentral about a DBA journeyman certification. There are a couple good...
2010-05-17
963 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
By James Serra
I’m honored to be hosting T-SQL Tuesday — edition #192. For those who may...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
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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