Interview Questions On Sql Server -Part 2
1. What is the difference between the Union and Union All?
1) Union is used to select distinct data from the...
2010-01-31
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Blog Posts
Interview Questions on Sql Server -Part 3
1. What are the Sql Joins?Sql Joins are the way to get data from many tables based on some logical...
2010-01-31
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Interview Questions on sql server -Part-1
1. What is the Normalization?Normalization:-Normalization can be defined as the process of organization the data to reduce the redundant table...
2010-01-31
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Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS)
I recently discovered the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) virtual chapters. For those of you who struggle to make...
2010-01-31
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Reading in 2009
I saw a blog post from my friend Paul Randal recently in which he recounted the books he’d read in...
2010-01-31
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Sql Server View
Views:- View can be described as virtual table which derived its data from one or more than one table columns.It...
2010-01-31
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Stored Procedure to Get SQL Job Execution Status
Introduction
Ever need a programmatic way to figure out if a SQL Agent job is running? I did. After spending a...
2010-01-31
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SEO my SQL Server Blog
I was going to spend today finishing off some SQL Server related blog posts, I currently have a list of...
2010-01-30
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Try Catch within an SSIS Script Tasks and Components
Using a Try/Catch/Finally within your Script Components and Script Tasks is just good coding practice. The thing you want to be able to do is push...
2010-01-30
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Book Review: The Breach
The Breach by Patrick Lee ($8 at Amazon) was a gift, and wasn’t quite what I expected based on the...
2010-01-29
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Blogs
TempDB Internals – What’s New (Sql Server 2016 to 2025)
By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
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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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