Do More, With Less
Next week, July 22 and 23, I’ll be presenting at Redgate Summit. Summt is our smaller, focused sessions. This one is about the concept of how DevOps, or, more...
2020-07-16
44 reads
The Scary DBA
Database Fundamentals #27: Creating a Primary Key in the Table Designer
Defining primary keys is the hardest part of the operation. You will need to work very closely with the business in order to define exactly what column or columns...
2020-07-20 (first published: 2020-07-14)
343 reads
Extended Events Capturing the T-SQL of Prepared Statements
I asked this question myself: Is there a way to use Extended Events to capture the T-SQL of a prepared statement? Why would I be concerned with prepared statements?...
2020-07-15 (first published: 2020-07-06)
339 reads
SQL Server Backups on AWS RDS
One of the things I love the most about Platform as a Service offerings is the fact that it makes it so I don’t have to do silly things...
2020-07-09 (first published: 2020-06-29)
322 reads
State of Database Monitoring
Redgate published a report that many of you helped with by providing information. First, thanks! Your info really helped. Second, do you want to see it? You can. Go...
2020-06-22
15 reads
Database Fundamentals #26: The Primary Key War
There is a war about primary keys in the database world. There are two camps. The first camp believes that primary keys should only ever be created on meaningful...
2020-07-06 (first published: 2020-06-22)
683 reads
Combining DMVs, Query Store and Extended Events Is Challenging
I was recently asked a question on a forum by a person who was frustrated with all the tool choices we have for measuring performance. Moreover, they were frustrated...
2020-06-18
11 reads
AWS RDS and SQL Server Deadlocks
What’s the story with AWS RDS and SQL Server deadlocks? I’m approaching AWS RDS like I was taking on a new role at a new organization. Do we have...
2020-06-08
75 reads
Fun Fact: AWS RDS and system_health
Did you know that the system_health Extended Event session was running in your RDS instances? Well, it is. HOWEVER. This query, which works perfectly fine on my on premises...
2020-06-02
71 reads
Getting Started on AWS RDS
I’m expanding my skill set into AWS in a big way. So, one of the things I do when I’m learning a technology is to write blog posts about...
2020-06-17 (first published: 2020-06-01)
327 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
Deployment Pipelines in Fabric – What Are They?
By HeyMo0sh
In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as...
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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