Distributing Database Connection Strings Using Active Directory Group Policy
I ran into Brian Knight today on the Expo floor here at TechEd.
It was good to catch up a bit...
2006-06-13
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Blog Posts
TechEd - DATTLC01 : Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2005
It's
been a few years since I wrote my eBook on SQL Server performance monitoring
but I still keep a strong interest...
2006-06-12
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In Boston for TechEd
This will be my first ever TechEd and I'm looking forward to it. I was able to go to the...
2006-06-11
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Training Center
We kind of opened the training center today. The pages are up, Google's charging us for their nice AdWords, and...
2006-06-09
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Two things I wish they'd change about endpoints in SQL Server 2005
I've
been playing around with endpoints in SQL Server 2005 looking at how they can
be used to enhance security for SQL...
2006-05-27
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When It Takes Time...
Saw this from Jason Haley's Interesting Finds post for the morning of May 25, 2006:
Project Managing Latency or: How to...
2006-05-25
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Disaster Recovery and SQL Server, Part II
In a previous post, Disaster Recovery and SQL Server, Part I,
I pointed to the Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article which...
2006-05-24
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The Business Trap
We finally approved the PO for our training center equipment yesterday and along with the order for the tables, we're...
2006-05-24
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SQL Prompt
I downloaded and installed SQL Prompt from Red Gate this morning. If
you aren't aware, PromptSQL was bought by Red Gate...
2006-05-23
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Disaster Recovery and SQL Server, Part I
The last few weeks I've been working on disaster recovery procedures
for my organization. We review them at least yearly to...
2006-05-20
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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...
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