2007-11-23
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Editorials
2007-11-22
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Contract or Perm
If you are accepting a DBA position, does it make sense to work as a contractor or permanent employee?
2007-11-21
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Open Enrollment
It's the time of year where employment benefits renew for many US employees. Steve Jones talks about how much your company should care about your health.
2007-11-19
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The Weekly News for November 19, 2007
A few comments on the news of the past week: SQL Server 2008 CPT5, a 1.6SSD Array, Non-Compete agreements and more.
2007-11-19
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2007-11-15
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Incommunicado
Communication is important, and it's a real problem when people can't reach you. Read about an interesting phone accident the some hints for better communication.
2007-11-14
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Data Breaches
Security is hard, but are we doing a good job? Steve Jones shares a few thoughts on our security development practices
2007-11-13
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Quick Hits on the News for Nov 12, 2007
A few comment on the database news for the week ending 11/10/07
2007-11-12
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The Pace of Information
Is the rapid pace of information being fed to us a problem? Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
2007-11-12
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Blogs
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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