Azure Backup Storage Options
As a database administrator, I am very conscious of how data is being backed up. Up until SQL Server 2012,...
2018-12-14
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[Video] Configuring Geo-Replication to SQL DB
With the hurricane bearing down on the east coast of the United States last week, making sure you have a...
2018-10-01 (first published: 2018-09-21)
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Steps for SQL DB Geo Replication
Unless you are living under a rock, you have most likely heard of the hurricane that is bearing down on...
2018-09-26 (first published: 2018-09-14)
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Extended Security Updates: No More Freebies
As data professionals, we should always strive to keep our systems updated and patched to ensure proper security of our...
2018-08-31
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Database Protection in the Cloud Era
The Cloud is a fun and exciting place to be. Exciting as it may be, even in the cloud, protection...
2018-08-10
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File Growth Rate – The GUI Lies
If you are like me, you use the SSMS GUI for various things. Though, I tend to use scripts for...
2018-06-27 (first published: 2018-06-15)
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Building a Personal VPN Azure Solution
Since joining Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting, I tend to travel about once a month. This isn’t a huge amount and...
2018-06-08
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Mobile Azure
Microsoft Azure offers up a lot of technologies that you can play around with. One thing that you might not...
2018-06-01
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DBCC Clonedatabase and Query Store
Cloning things is all the rage these days…..even Storm Troopers.
Anyway, by now, you probably have seen documentation on Query Store...
2018-06-04 (first published: 2018-05-25)
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Working with Consultants
After being immersed into the consulting world again for 6 months now, I’ve gotten to work with clients in several...
2018-04-27
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Blogs
The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out...
Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
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Not Just an Upgrade
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Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers