How to Tell Your Windows Azure SQL Database Moved
The very concept of the Windows Azure SQL Database (WASD) is predicated on the up-time created by having three active copies...
2013-05-13 (first published: 2013-05-07)
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The very concept of the Windows Azure SQL Database (WASD) is predicated on the up-time created by having three active copies...
2013-05-13 (first published: 2013-05-07)
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You can get backups of your WASD databases. But, if you want them to be transactionally consistent, you need to...
2013-04-04
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Microsoft has stated pretty clearly that they’re putting code on Azure first, ahead of the desktop. Which makes one wonder...
2013-03-27 (first published: 2013-03-25)
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Laws of Thermodynamics
TANSTAAFL
Gods of the Copybook Headings
All magic comes with a price
Winter Is Coming
My adult years started with a pretty...
2013-03-20
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GAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!
I feel slightly better, but only slightly.
I started watching Star Trek: The Next Generation on Netflix just to unwind my...
2013-03-18
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The greatest part of my job is that I get to travel all over the world to present different technical...
2013-03-11
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I jumped at the opportunity to write a chapter for this book, Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices, because of all...
2013-03-04
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I earned my nickname. I’m proud of it. I am the Scary DBA. I don’t really like to advertise my...
2013-02-27
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In just a couple of weeks I’ll be flying down to Richmond, VA to speak at SQL Saturday #187. I’ll...
2013-02-25
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Want to start a fight between a bunch of DBAs or database developers? Ask them where the comma should be...
2013-02-18 (first published: 2013-02-13)
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By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
By HeyMo0sh
In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as...
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I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
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