Statistics in SQL Server
I’ve put together a new Curah! of links to some of the better articles on SQL Server Statistics, specifically those...
2014-09-15 (first published: 2014-09-10)
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The Scary DBA
It’s All Fundamentals
I’m learning how to speak German. Interestingly enough, you don’t start off reading dissertations. Instead, you begin by learning the...
2014-09-09
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Speaker of the Month: September 2014
This month I’m very grateful because I was given the opportunity to present at DevLink in Chattanooga. I got to...
2014-09-05
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Left or Right?
No, this is not about politics. It’s about your WHERE clause… and your JOIN criteria… and your HAVING clause. It’s about a...
2014-09-08 (first published: 2014-09-03)
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Silliness for an Important Cause
I don’t mind saying that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, scares me. A degenerative disease...
2014-08-21
1,232 reads
The Red Gate Way…
As companies go, Red Gate is a little different. That is readily apparent in our tools and the philosophy behind...
2014-08-20
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Getting the Word Out
A discussion that I’ve frequently had with organizers of SQL Saturday events, our own people here at Red Gate, authors,...
2014-08-19
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A Full Day of Query Tuning
I’m excited to able to say that I’ve been given the opportunity to put on a full day workshop at...
2014-08-14
804 reads
Say Thank You
I was approached by a man at SQL Bits who only wanted to thank me for blogging. He said, “I...
2014-08-13 (first published: 2014-08-06)
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Speaker of the Month: August 2014
Speaker of the Month is now officially one year old.
I went back and reread my first post. The goals were...
2014-08-08 (first published: 2014-08-01)
7,050 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