A Self-Serve System to Refresh Databases (Part 3)
This is the wrap up of this series on a system for developers to restore production database in test. It gets pretty detailed on the web setup side.
2019-05-16
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Administration
Underused sp_WhoIsActive capabilities: @delta_interval
Great Ghost In the last post, we looked at how to see if your query is misbehaving, or if things…
2019-05-10
Log File Expansion Automation
SQL Server Database Log file expansion can be fairly tedious if you need to make the log bigger in many reasonably-sized growth increments. It can be tedious because you...
2019-05-10
Access is denied – Using DTCPing utility between two Windows Server 2016
Few days ago a client requested the configuration of MSDTC (Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator). NOTE: If you want to know more about it here is a nice FAQ from...
The...
2019-05-10
Life behind a proxy server: downloading content for SSMS Help Viewer
Life behind a proxy server can be problematic. Not every software out there is tested correctly for proxy interaction and oftentimes the experience for the corporate user is a...
The...
2019-05-09
Underused sp_WhoIsActive capabilities: @get_avg_time
Ablazemalls Look, it’s impressive enough that sp_WhoIsActive works as well as it does. Most people who’ve been using it for…
2019-05-09
Why is my log file not shrinking when I do regular backups?
I often times get the question similar to “Why is my log file not shrinking when I do regular backups”? It goes to show there the functionality of the...
2019-05-08
Unable to Start Execution – Login Doesn’t have Permissions to use the Proxy
Proxy accounts for PowerShell, SSIS, and Operating System (CmdExec) job steps are instrumental when performing certain actions in SQL Server Agent. Once you’ve set up a proxy, and configured...
2019-05-08
Default Backups and Feature Awareness
Default backup schemes for databases would be a nice enhancement.
2019-05-08
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SQL SERVER – Script to Kill All Inactive Sessions – Kill Sleeping Sessions from sp_who2
I consider myself fortunate that I get to work with so many different clients while engaged in Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. Recently we found out that one of...
2019-05-06
Blogs
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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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
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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