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Most DBAs manage multiple SQL servers, each handling different needs for your business. Even with the diverse uses for different servers, there is often the need to deploy the same scripts to all servers for various purposes. Author Joe Doherty brings us his scripts and technique for executing a script across multiple servers.
In this presentation, Brian shows you how you can use database snapshots for data protection. He shows you how to create a snapshot, read from it and lastly how to do a database recovery from the snapshot.
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In SSIS demostration, you can wrap a package or container in a MS DTC transaction. This type of transaction ensures that if a problem occurs in a package, your data can roll back to a prior state.
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In this video, you'll learn how to use the For Each ADO enumerator in SSIS to loop through a table and reconfigure the package based on the rows in the table. You can use this type of example to store meta data about your client and reconfigure the package for each client dynamically.
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What values are returned when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest2
(
id NUMERIC(10,0) IDENTITY(10,10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
INSERT dbo.IdentityTest2
(
somevalue
)
VALUES
( 'Steve')
, ('Bill')
GO
SELECT top 10
id
FROM dbo.IdentityTest2 See possible answers