Speaking at SQL Saturday Dallas
Speaking at SQLSaturday Dallas!
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Dallas on May 17th 2018! This one won’t let you down! Check out the amazing schedule!...
2019-05-24
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Blog Posts
Speaking at SQL Saturday Dallas
Speaking at SQLSaturday Dallas! I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Dallas on May 17th 2018! This one won’t let you down! Check out the amazing schedule!...
2019-05-24
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Always Use Roles–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Which of these is more complex? GRANT SELECT...
2019-05-23 (first published: 2019-05-10)
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Containers: Working With Volumes
In the previous two posts on containers I showed how use Docker commands to get an image and create a container. This time, we’re going to create a container...
2019-05-23
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Mass Backup All Sessions
Migrating Extended Event Sessions from one server to another should be a simple task. So simple, one would think there was no need to give it a second thought,...
2019-05-23
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Mass Backup All Sessions
Migrating Extended Event Sessions from one server to another should be a simple task. So simple, one would think there was no need to give it a second thought,...
2019-05-23
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The SQL Change Automation in SSMS Beta
Give it a try, as the beta is out. I’ve been watching this product and getting updates for the last six months or so and lately I’ve been pushing...
2019-05-23
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When Your Options Are Limited
In my role I am still on-call several times each month, and many of the escalations that come are simply things that newer DBA's and Help Desk staff have...
2019-05-23 (first published: 2019-05-13)
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Containers: Creating a Container
In yesterday’s blog post we pulled SQL Server images in preparation for today’s blog post where we create containers from those images. If you haven’t already, get Docker installed...
2019-05-22
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db_owner in msdb == sysadmin
This doesn’t require much in the way discussion. This isn’t exactly a huge issue since I don’t think granting db_owner ... Continue reading
2019-05-22 (first published: 2019-05-06)
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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...
AI: 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,...
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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