T-SQL Tuesday #104: Just Can’t Cut That Cord
We all have our favorite scripts, tools or utilities. Those are the things that help make our jobs easier. Some...
2018-07-20 (first published: 2018-07-10)
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T-SQL Tuesday #104: Just Can’t Cut That Cord
We all have our favorite scripts, tools or utilities. Those are the things that help make our jobs easier. In this article, I share with you a poor mans...
2018-07-10
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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