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Brad's Sure Guide to SQL Server 2008

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SQL Server 2008 has hundreds of new features and improvements for Production DBAs, Developer DBAs, and Business Intelligence specialists…in this book I focus on what I thought were the ten most important new features for Production DBAs.

2013-04-11

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How to Become an Exceptional DBA

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Brad McGehee provides a "career guide" for DBAs. It is intended both to help prospective DBAs find a "way in" to the profession, and to advise existing DBAs on how they can excel at their jobs, and so become Exceptional DBAs.

2009-06-03

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How to Become an Exceptional DBA

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Brad McGehee provides a "career guide" for DBAs. It is intended both to help prospective DBAs find a "way in" to the profession, and to advise existing DBAs on how they can excel at their jobs, and so become Exceptional DBAs.

2009-02-10

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Brad's Sure Guide to SQL Server 2008

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SQL Server 2008 has hundreds of new features and improvements for Production DBAs, Developer DBAs, and Business Intelligence specialists…in this book I focus on what I thought were the ten most important new features for Production DBAs.

2009-02-10

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RE: Adding IDENTITY field to large table

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not an ideal solution, but a more long winded approach would be: --create a new, empty table copied from the original table structure --add the identity field to this new table --copy all the data from the original table into the new table --bin the original table --rename the new table I don't know why […]

2003-07-01

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RE: How Frequent Do you Perform Restoration Test

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I agree with the above comments. No test or standby server is very short-sighted. To get back to the original question. If you cant restore your backup, you could try "RESTORE VERIFYONLY". It may give you more confidence in the backup files.

2003-06-27

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