A second week at SQLskills – performance tuning
G’day,
Back in February, I was lucky enough to attend a week of training on SQL internals from the people at...
2011-08-14
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measure twice, cut once.
Select from a table with no rows returned.
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I recently ran into a nice feature that I had never encountered before.
Sometimes, when developing or administrating an unfamiliar table...
2011-07-04
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Meme Monday for June – there are no dumb questions
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Here’s my input into this months Meme Monday – there are no dumb questions.
It seems (at least to me), that – occasionally...
2011-06-06
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Free SQL Exam cram sessions from Microsoft.
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I’m a big fan of maintaining and updating your technical skills, but sometimes its difficult to measure your ability at...
2011-05-31
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A curious case of a missing configuration group.
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I recently received a brand new windows 7 virtual machine for my every day work use and one of the first things...
2011-05-12
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Catalog view or compatibility view?
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The recommended way to access SQL SERVER metadata is through the catalog views.
The challenge is to be able to distinguish...
2011-05-08
3,003 reads
Certifications – and a survey.
G’day,
There’s a lot of mixed opinions around about certifications.
Are they worth while, do they mean anything, do employers value them...
2011-05-05
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How do you create or update stored procedures.
G’day,
Running object creation scripts into other environments is a big part of most DBA’s work – especially when a new system...
2011-05-04
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Meme Monday – “I got 99 problems but a disk ain’t one”
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Apparently “Meme Monday” was started by Thomas Larock (Blog | Twitter) , as a way for getting people writing. I haven’t been...
2011-05-02
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Checkpoints and the Lazy writer
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Both the lazy writer process and a checkpoint both push in-memory pages out to disk, however that’s where the similarity ends.
The reason...
2011-05-02
20,289 reads
Blogs
Building the Team: Roles and Responsibilities in FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
In my experience, FinOps success has never been just about tools or dashboards. It...
Tooling for Success: The Best FinOps Tools and Technologies
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps person, I know that to make FinOps successful, you need more...
From Planning to Practice: Setting Up Your FinOps Framework
By HeyMo0sh
As someone who works in DevOps, I’m always focused on creating systems that are...
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top II
I have a database, DNRTest, that has a number of tables and other objects in it. The other day, I was trying to mock up a test and ran this code on the same server:
-- run yesterday CREATE DATABASE DNRTest2 GO USE DNRTest2 GO CREATE TABLE NewTable (id INT) GOToday, I realize that I need a copy of DNRTest for another mockup, and I run this:
-- run today USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest2 FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens? See possible answers