Renewed as an MVP
I received my renewal notice and, after checking the message header, it is April 1st, I got very happy. I’d...
2010-04-01
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The Scary DBA
SQL Saturday #39 New York
New York, New York, it’s a hell of a town. The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down. The people...
2010-03-23
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Undocumented Virtual Column: %%lockres%
One of my development teams needed a mechanism for identifying the value of a key that was part of a...
2010-03-18
4,668 reads
SNESSUG March Meeting
Aaron Bertrand showed up to teach us tips and tricks for SQL Server Management Studio. We had to move our...
2010-03-15
612 reads
Location of the PASS Summit Follow-up
I got a little distracted after lunch and was reading through some of the various bloggers reactions to the decision...
2010-03-11
618 reads
Location of the PASS Summit
There has been some discussion recently around the location of the PASS Summit. The debate was centered on the results...
2010-03-10
861 reads
Blog Anniversary
Two years old. In March of 2008 I received a whopping 96 visits. I’m up to 1900 so far this...
2010-03-09
534 reads
MacGyver?
Who the heck is MacGyver? Television program you say? Hang on. I need to visit imdb.com…
Oh, the late eighties… Yeah,...
2010-03-08
678 reads
PowerShell for Batch Operations
I’m right in the middle of moving one of our databases from Oracle to SQL Server (and I just love...
2010-03-01
1,687 reads
Help with Learning Powershell
If you’re not reading Buck Woody’s blog, why not? Today he posted a helpful hint for getting performance counters directly...
2010-02-26
1,397 reads
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,...
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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