First Impressions
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Microsoft SQL Server “Denali” (CTP1) – 11.0.1103.9 (X64)
I’ve been playing with the CTP for a few days (with absolutely no...
2010-11-09
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SQL In The Wild
A Trio of Table Variables
So, it’s the second Tuesday of the month again, and it’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again. This month it’s hosted...
2010-10-12
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One wide index or multiple narrow indexes?
Or “If one index is good, surely many indexes (indexes? indices? indi?) will be better”
This is a question that comes...
2010-09-14
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Come and gone
Or “Plan cache monitoring – insert and remove”
Previously I took a look at the CacheHit and CacheMiss events to see how...
2010-08-31
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Hit and miss
Or “Monitoring plan cache usage”
For people interested in the details of how SQL is using and reusing execution plans, there...
2010-07-27
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Does a missing data file send a database suspect?
Short answer: No
I keep seeing this come up on various forums when people ask what makes a database go suspect...
2010-06-29
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DBA Hell
On the first day of DBA hell, the server gave to me
A database with damaged system tables and no good...
2010-06-15
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In, Exists and join – a roundup
Over the last several months I’ve had a look at IN, Exists, Join and their opposites to see how they...
2010-04-27
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Left outer join vs NOT EXISTS
And to wrap up the miniseries on IN, EXISTS and JOIN, a look at NOT EXISTS and LEFT OUTER JOIN...
2010-03-23
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The Root of all Evil
Or “Shot gun query tuning”
There have been a fair few forums questions in recent months asking for help in removing...
2010-03-11
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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...
Forums
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Not Just an Upgrade
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Question of the Day
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