Crossing Azure Borders
Steve Jones is pleased to see some changes at Azure that make the database a stronger platform.
2015-11-05
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Editorial
2015-11-04
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Virtual Failback
The pressure to move to virtual systems is increasing, but is there a fallback if you have issues?
2015-11-03
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SQL Injection - The Revenge
As yet more personal details are spilled by preventable security lapses, what's
2015-11-02
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Secret Software Security
The move to limit disclosure of vulnerabilities continues, with potential issues for many of us.
2015-11-02
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2015-10-30
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The Hot Jobs
This week Steve looks at the hot jobs that are going to have pay increases in the coming year.
2015-10-26
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Positive or Negative
Today Steve Jones wonders if the way you choose to design a database says something about you.
2015-10-23
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The Dangers of Travel
As data professionals, we might carry lots of information with us that relates to our organization. Will we get caught up in government issues as we cross borders?
2015-10-22
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An Out of Date CAP
The CAP Theorem talks about the properties of distributed systems, and how you can really only have two of them in any system.
2015-10-21
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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...
AI: 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