What are the challenges to implementing a successful test data management strategy? In our recent webinar ‘Harnessing the Power of Test Data Management: Strategies for Success’, Redgate’s Steve Jones was joined by Hamish Watson (DevOps Consultant) and Daniel Watkins (Director/Principal Consultant) to talk all things TDM and how to implement it efficiently and effectively. Here are 10 key tips and takeaways from their conversation in a short blog post.
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I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers