There’s no substitute for mentoring
There’s no substitute for mentoring. We’ve heard it before, and in various ways, but I think we tend to largely...
2017-07-18
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SQL Awesomesauce
Employees, encourage work from home
The discussion around the last article I wrote on work from home (WFH) has been wonderful, but there is one...
2017-05-22
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Employers, let your people work from home
Work from home is, astoundingly, still not the norm in United States IT offices. This is ludicrous, because employees want...
2017-05-17
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I’m going to make you love backups
On April 12, I'm going to show you about two dozen ways to make your backups better, easier, faster, and...
2017-04-04
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The Public Speaking Roadmap
So you look around, and all the cool kids are speaking at SQL Saturdays and PASS Summit and the like....
2017-03-25
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Compare column names for case sensitivity
I’m reviewing the code for the upcoming Minion CheckDB, and one of the things we’re checking for is case consistency in...
2017-01-25
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Webinar: Introducing Minion CheckDB!
Minion CheckDB is available for download as of February 1, 2017! In celebration, we’re having a Minion CheckDB webinar on two...
2017-01-19
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Database snapshots for everyone!
If you're lucky enough to have SQL Server 2016, go on and upgrade to SP1....you get extra-lucky special database snapshots...
2017-01-05
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Why won’t my SP work THIS time?
Why won't my SP work? I did this exact thing. You're never too old to do something like this.
The post...
2016-12-09
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December: A two-line play.
“Wow! A family, a marathon, and two businesses! So how do you keep up with it all?” asked Twitter. “Work-life...
2016-12-05
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Blogs
Deployment Pipelines in Fabric – What Are They?
By HeyMo0sh
In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as...
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...
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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
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
Question of the Day
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