T-SQL Tuesday #005: SSIS Reporting
Automating SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) administration through PowerShell is very different than writing scripts against the core database engine....
2010-04-13
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Blog Posts
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RTM Available and Installed
Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie had a good post up yesterday that highlights some of the new features in Visual Studio 2010....
2010-04-13
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A DMV a Day – Day 12
The DMV for Day 12 is sys.dm_db_partition_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns page and row-count information for every partition...
2010-04-12
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April OPASS Meeting Featuring Joe Webb
Tomorrow night, April 13th, at 6pm we will be having our April OPASS meeting, sponsored by Veredus Orlando with Joe...
2010-04-12
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Book Review: Crush It!
Not long ago, I read a review of Gary Vaynerchuk’s book, Crush It! The reviewer, Michael Hyatt (Twitter | Blog), liked...
2010-04-12
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Bug: Reporting Services 2K8, SSMS and Windows 7
[Edit] Since writing this, I've realized that the true reason behind this was that my account was not a member...
2010-04-12
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db_executor role
This process might not be granular enough for some but there is a nice simple way of creating a role...
2010-04-12
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How Can I Tell if a Windows Login has Rights to My Server?
Introduction
Here is another utility stored procedure that I use. This stored procedure will tell you how a user has access...
2010-04-12
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New SSDs
I ordered a few recently from NewEgg. One for a desktop, one for a laptop. We’ll see how they do,...
2010-04-12
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Notes from the R2 Tweetup
Several weeks ago I was invited to attend a ‘tweetup’ by Microsoft on April 8th, an almost all expenses paid...
2010-04-12
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Blogs
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...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
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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