Hooks
Building hooks from your software into enterprise monitoring systems is prudent, and might save you from a few late night phone calls.
2014-08-29
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Editorial
Reverse Engineering Disasters
Preparing a disaster recovery plan means more than just trying to prevent a few specific disasters. It means turning around the way you view the world.
2014-08-28
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Smooth Database Deployment at SQL in the City 2014
SQL in the City is coming this fall to London and Seattle.
2014-08-26
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Testing is Your Best Investment
One of the things that can make a big difference in how well your software performs is testing.
2014-08-25
138 reads
The Flash Database
What is the impact of flash storage on databases? There are quite a few, but this week Steve Jones asks if SQL Server should do more to take advantage of them.
2014-08-25
185 reads
Production Subsets
Working with data in development or test environments can be challenging. This week Steve Jones asks how you might deal with the volume of data and whether you like subsets.
2022-06-01 (first published: 2014-08-22)
260 reads
Bronze Age Development
The slow pace of Visual Studio development had a number of problems over the years, but Microsoft has dramatically changed the way they build their software for the better.
2021-02-02 (first published: 2014-08-21)
327 reads
Yet Another Attack Vector
The lack of progress in amending our laws to handle the digital revolution in our leaves may leave us open to unexpected attacks.
2014-08-20
134 reads
Artist or Scientist?
In your work, are you an artist or a scientist? Steve Jones knows we need to be both, but when is each appropriate?
2021-02-03 (first published: 2014-08-19)
411 reads
Disconnecting Auditing
Currently we have system administrators responsible for securing our systems, including the auditing capabilities. However that's not the best way to ensure that we can protect our systems.
2014-08-18
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Blogs
TempDB Internals – What’s New (Sql Server 2016 to 2025)
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