Techorama Netherlands 2019
You only have a few more weeks to sign up for one of my favorite events, Techorama. This year is the second time the event will be held in...
2019-09-03
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Blog Posts
The 99 Flavours of SQL Server are all Vanilla
There are so many options for running SQL Server now. It can feel a little intimidating. You’ve spent years gaining experience with SQL running on Windows Server. On bare...
2019-09-03 (first published: 2019-08-22)
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Using Raw Files in SSIS
SQL Server Integration Services is well designed for retrieving and processing data on the fly, directly in the data flow pipeline. However, there are circumstances that occasionally require the...
2019-09-03
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Using strace inside a SQL Server Container
So, if you’ve been following my blog you know my love for internals. Well, I needed to find out exactly how something worked at the startup of a SQL...
2019-09-03
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Whitespace, Letter Case, and Other Things That Prevent Plan Reuse
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Last week's post briefly mentioned that SQL server may not reuse a query plan from cache if there is a small difference in whitespace.
In addition...
2019-09-03
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Whitespace, Letter Case, and Other Things That Prevent Plan Reuse
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Last week's post briefly mentioned that SQL server may not reuse a query plan from cache if there is a small difference in whitespace.
In addition...
2019-09-03
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20 Years of Redgate Software
Yeah, Redgate is only one year younger than my children. What’s really frightening is that I’ve been using Redgate’s products since my kids were a year old. I was...
2019-09-02
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Protected: Vajrasara – an interview with Lashana Lewis – Part 1
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2019-09-02
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Protected: Vajrasara – An interview with Lashana Lewis – Part 2
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2019-09-02
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Public and Demo Data Coming Soon!
Any database professional that has been around the Microsoft world for more than about 3 minutes will be familiar with the old, faithful sample dataset created and published by...
2019-09-02 (first published: 2019-08-22)
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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