Full backups, the log chain and the COPY_ONLY option.
There have been a large number of posts made regarding the interaction between full database backups and the log chain...
2011-03-08
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SQL In The Wild
And now for a completely inappropriate use of SQL Server
A while back I wrote up a short introductory overview of Genetic Algorithms. Just for the shear, absolute fun of...
2011-02-22
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Are int joins faster than string joins?
This one comes up a lot on the forums, often as advice given…
“You should use integers for the key rather...
2011-02-15
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Quest Webcast: Dos and Don’ts of Database corruption
I was guest presenter on last week’s Quest Pain of the Week presentation. The presentation is available for download from...
2011-02-14
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Is a clustered index best for range queries?
I see a lot of advice that talks about the clustered index been the best index for use for range...
2011-02-01
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Upcoming presentations
It’s looking like it’s going to be a busy year.
It’s only January and I already have three presentations lined up...
2011-01-28
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Distincting an IN subquery
This is going to be a quick one…
I keep seeing forum code (and production code) that includes the DISTINCT in...
2011-01-18
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Capturing the Execution Plan
One last post on execution plans and Profiler (at least for now)
When trying to check a query’s execution plan, the...
2011-01-04
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Do IF statements cause recompiles?
I heard this one over at SSC a while back. “Avoid IF statements in stored procedures as they result in...
2010-12-14
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Recompiles
I’ve looked at cache hit and miss events and at the cache insert and remove events. The only cache-monitoring event...
2010-11-18
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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,...
Forums
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