Day 20 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: The Case of the Backups That Wouldn’t Restore
I have decided to spend day 20 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series by relating a true tale...
2013-01-25
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Day 19 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: How Much Log Can a Backup Log
It’s day 19 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series, and today I want to talk about how much...
2013-01-24
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Day 18 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: How to CHECKDB Like a Boss
Day 18 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series is drawing to a close. It’s 11:22 PM here, and...
2013-01-23
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Day 17 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: When are Checksums Written to a Page
Today is day 17 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery. The series has skipped a couple of days due to...
2013-01-24 (first published: 2013-01-21)
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Day 16 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Disaster Recovery Gems From Around The Net
It’s day 16 of my series 31 Days of Disaster Recovery. I’ve seen a lot of great DR related posts...
2013-01-18
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Day 15 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Running DBCC CheckTable in Parallel Jobs
Welcome back to my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series. Today is day 15, and I want to answer a...
2013-01-17
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Day 14 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Fixing a Corrupt Tempdb
Welcome to day 14 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series. I’ve previously discussed handling corruption for nonclustered indexes...
2013-01-16
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Day 13 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Standard Backup Scripts
31 Days of Disaster Recovery
Today’s post took longer to prepare than I had anticipated which is why day 13...
2013-01-15
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Day 12 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Extreme Disaster Recovery Training
31 Days of Disaster Recovery
Fittingly, today’s focus on disaster recovery as part of my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery...
2013-01-12
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Day 11 of 31 Days of Disaster: Converting LSN Formats
31 Days of Disaster Recovery
Welcome back to my series 31 Days of Disaster Recovery. Today is day 11, and...
2013-01-12
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UNISTR Basics
What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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