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What is SQL Server not good at?
I was reading a post that had this quote: ” The MongoDB docs tell you what it’s good at, without emphasizing what it’s not good at. ” This isn’t to pick on MongoDB, but the post did make me wonder what SQL … Continue reading
Backups and Consistency
I wrote about transactional consistency recently. Why do we need this? Imagine that I have an orders table and an ordersdetail table in my database. The orders table has the order header (date, customer, etc) and the detail table includes … Continue reading
It Starts with Version Control
As a software developer, I learned about the value of version control over time. My first forays into development were as a child, where I made a single backup of my code on a separate floppy disk in the event I had … Continue reading
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How SQL Server Full Backups Work
I’m writing this in support of a few talks I give that talk about backups. This is how I see things and it’s based on things I’ve learned over time. Some of this comes from a great explanation on Technet … Continue reading
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