How to move the MSDB database
First we need to know the name and file location of the MSDB database files. When you change the location, make...
2011-07-13
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Ryan Adams
How to move the Model Database
First we need to know the name and file location of the Model database files. When you change the location, make...
2011-07-12
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How to move the Master database
The catch to moving the Master database is that you must also move the Resource database. Microsoft states that the...
2011-07-11
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How to add your CMS server to a group
You cannot add a connection to your CMS server, on your CMS server. Well that is what I thought until...
2011-07-06
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T-SQL Tuesday Mirroring and SSWUG
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Allen Kinsel (Blog|Twitter) and covers “disasters and recovery”. My favorite DR solution is...
2011-06-14
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Blogs
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I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
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By Vinay Thakur
continuing from Day 1 where we covered the history of AI and GPT family,...
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A Quick Restore
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Guarding Against SQL Injection at the Database Layer (SQL Server)
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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
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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