2017-08-02
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Editorial
2017-08-01
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Managing Passwords
This week Troy Hunt provides updated password guidelines, but Steve Jones notes many of us are in the middle, both managing and dealing with passwords.
2017-07-31
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2017-07-31
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A Summit Just North of The Big Easy
Steve Jones travels back to one of the largest free events in the country, SQL Saturday Baton Rouge.
2017-07-28
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2021-10-11 (first published: 2017-07-27)
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SQL Crossword #1
Today we start a new puzzle series, with a crossword puzzle from MVP Kenneth Fisher.
2017-07-26
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2017-07-25
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The Financial DBA
The future of the DBA might include lots of asset tracking and financial meetings.
2017-07-24
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2017-07-21
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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