A Beautiful Google Mind
Larry Page is a very interesting person, one that is looking to change the world.
2016-06-21
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Editorial
Triple Check Your Restores
After the crash of an US Air Force database was reported, Steve Jones has some advice.
2016-06-20
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2016-06-20
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SQL Server 2016 is Just Faster
SQL Server 2016 runs faster, sometimes without you changing anything.
2016-06-17
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What's Your Area of Expertise?
We might be smart in one area, but not others. That's worth remembering.
2025-12-22 (first published: 2016-06-16)
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Stretch Pricing
The Stretch database feature in SQL Server 2016 is fantastic, but is it too expensive?
2016-06-15
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2016-06-14
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2016-06-13
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The Penalty for a Data Breach
One of the things that will be debated quite a bit in the next few years will be the penalties for data loss.
2016-06-13
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2016-06-10
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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