take the database offline (or at least ensure, that nobody writes to it by executing another RESTORE DATABASE on it) and make a file copy / backup of it and...

Very old article / discussion, but I disagree with the tip to set another database than master as default too

• problems (or manual modifications of settings) when the database is...

My colleague uses this in a database where the analysts could run several simulations.

Each analyst has his own user + schema (which is the default schema for this user) with...

Nice advertising article, but I (as SQL but no BI guy) have still absolute no idea, what it is for and how I could use it (or for what).

Can I...

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by Thomas Franz.

I agree, that it could be a valid solution too (depending on your real workload).

But you should change your query a bit to make it faster (place alias of the...

this may work for a customer + the last order but there are tons of other scenarios where the updates comes much more often or it is not worth the...

just did a small performance test (SQL 2022 Dev.):

SET STATISTICS TIME, IO ON;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp1
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp2

SELECT TOP 2000000 o.name, LEFT(CAST(NEWID() AS VARCHAR(36)),...

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by Thomas Franz.

The script will be *SLOW*, because it uses a scalar function and will be called Row-By-Agonizing-Row, multiple million times on a real database.

UPDATE tbl SET name =...

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by Thomas Franz.

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The Social Security Number may be theoretical unique per natural person, but there are people without (e.g. foreign customers). And as in any systems there are "holes" where people got...

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by Thomas Franz.

I'd think it is better to really recompile all the procedures / triggers / views / functions etc. instead to hope, that the sys.dependencies-table is always 100% correct.

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