Notes on SQL

Random articles from a puzzled DBA

Background Whilst watching a Pluralsight training course by Paul Randal, on ‘Logging, Recovery and the Transaction log’, a particular snippet related to differential backups piqued my curiosity. Basically, does a differential backup only take backups of altered pages, within a database. The short answer is ‘yes’, but the detail is a little bit more interesting …

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Introduction Binary Large Objects (BLOB) data can be a graphical image, a pdf document, a music file or any of a wide range of data types, which can generally be saved into a SQL Server database. As part of a series of investigations I’m currently performing within SQL Server, I have looked at how BLOB …

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