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The Development Backup
Have you ever had a development server crash? Have you lost work because of this? Had delays or had to recreate code? You shouldn’t, or at least you shouldn’t lose much work or time.. There was a time when I … Continue reading
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Tagged Backup/Recovery, software development, sql server
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Filetable–Nesting folders and files
In previous posts I showed how to create a folder in a Filetable and also how to the create (and move) files into the subfolder. However I didn’t repeat that and wanted to test the ability to actually nest things … Continue reading
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Tagged Filetable, sql server, syndicated, T-SQL
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No Handwaving Away the DBA
There’s a great quote I read, at the end of this article. It says: “…if you think that switching to NoSQL will just let you hand-wave away all of the challenges of running a database, you are terribly misguided.” The context … Continue reading
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Tagged administration, career, career2, NoSQL, sql server
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Getting Local Books Online
One of the things that’s annoyed me in the last few versions is that Books Online isn’t smoothly installed for me. I often seem to forget to run through the process, and I’ll find myself on an airplane without being … Continue reading
Voice of the DBA 