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When was SQL Server restarted?

Over the weekend, I interacted with some of the “wanna be” DBAs. During the interaction I checked with them how they would find when was the SQL Server instance restarted? Everyone had a different approach to find out the information. Here are … Continue reading

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Converting the .safe backup to native format using SafeToSQL

On Wednesday I came across a question in MSDN. The user had a .safe file located on one of the servers and was not sure how to read that file. The .safe files are created by the Idera SQL Safe backup … Continue reading

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