The Stress of a Former DBA
Rodney Landrum impresses on his audience the importance of attention to the finer details, during data analysis and reporting.
2015-06-22
222 reads
Editorial
Sweat Files and Practice Projects
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at side projects and how you might actually grow our careers.
2015-06-18
173 reads
Culture Clashes and Arrogance
A guest editorial from Andy Warren looks at the disagreements between teams in technology.
2015-06-17
203 reads
Five Minute Refactoring
The debate over how to change code or solve a problem can create arguments that last for years. Steve Jones notes the idea of limiting debates to five minutes is interesting.
2015-06-15
174 reads
The Challenges of Space
CSS Engineers at Microsoft are reporting more space issues with database systems. Steve Jones has a few comments.
2015-06-15
132 reads
2015-06-12
127 reads
Practical Hekaton
Steve Jones is searching for anyone that is using In-Memory OLTP tables in production.
2015-06-11
164 reads
Archive Every Day
There are challenges with the large scale archiving of data. Steve Jones talks about rethinking this as a daily process rather than a periodic one.
2015-06-09
456 reads
When Should We Be Cleaning Data?
Part of our job as a data professional often deals with the movement and cleaning of data. However, should we be trying to reduce the work we do? Move the burden to the application? Steve Jones has a few comments.
2015-06-08
176 reads
The Multi-skilled Developer
Is the DBA a fading star? More likely, there is a general lack of understanding of the roles of the different types of DBA, and of the other IT teams that ensure that successful application developments happen in any large enterprise.
2019-09-25 (first published: 2015-06-08)
624 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...
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,...
A Wellbeing Day at Redgate
By Steve Jones
It’s a day off for Redgate today. This is our annual wellbeing day, where...
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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