DBCC SQLPERF (Logspace) Reporting Internals
This is a broad overview of the DBCC SQLPERF command primarily for version 7 and 2000.
Support for Network Database Files
By default, network database files are not supported with Microsoft SQL Server. Here's a workaround.
Microsoft SQL Server OLAP Services Cell-Level Security
This article describes how SQL Server 7.0 (Service Pack 1) OLAP Services takes advantage of the user and group structure in Microsoft Windows NT to offer cell-level security, and describes several ways to tailor permissions to data across the enterprise.
Review: Professional SQL Server 2000 XML
Professional SQL Server 2000 XML - Find out if this book from Wrox is as interesting as it sounds.
Connection Pooling with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services
This white paper describes how to use the connection pooling objects included with the Microsoft XML for Analysis Provider to develop scalable client and Web applications for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services. (11 printed pages)
An Alternative to Windows NT
Left over from the Y2K fiasco, but a good corporate memo that might still be useful as an alternative to XP.
Death of the Production DBA
If you see a priest outside your cubical, beware! He could be trying to read you your last rites. If he hasn't showed up yet, don't worry, he'll be over shortly because the production DBA is dead or will be shortly.
SQL Server Database Coding Conventions and Best Practices
Learn the key basics of writing quality Transact-SQL code.
Measure for Measure
Do OLAP tools shortchange users with time-varying data? This article by Seth Grimes looks at some of the problems with OLAP tools.
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