The Story So Far
Brent Ozar (blog | twitter) asked me to pick a favorite blog post for the year. Since I couldn’t pick anything I wrote (yes, I love myself that much), I had to pick one from the community. Since just about everyone in Brent’s crazy list of crazy blogs about SQL, I had to pick someone from the SQL Server community.
My Favorite Blog Post This Year
Earlier this year, Mladen Prajdić posted SQL Server – Undelete a Table and Restore a Single Table from Backup. I love this post for a couple of reasons. First, it’s completely crazy. Mladen had a strange idea and then ran with it. Rather than accept conventional thinking that it isn’t possible to restore a single table from a backup, Mladen opened up SSMS and started prodding at the inside of SQL Server. The second reason I love this post is because the explanation is clear and the code well documented. Mladen ran the code by me before he published the post. Normally, I can’t read other people’s code without a tremendous amount of time and energy. His code was clear enough to stand on its own.
Coming Up Next
Grant Fritchey (blog | twitter) is up next. Grant has been a huge inspiration to me – he’s humble, intelligent, and genuinely interested in helping out. When he’s not terrifying developers at a large insurance company, he is a scout leader, father, geek, and kilt connoisseur. Grant’s post drops tomorrow – December 10 – so be on the look out.
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It figures you’d pick a post that 1) breaks all the rules, 2) does the breaking in a professional manner 3) warns you not to do it, then shows how wonderful it is to do it.
I loved Mladen’s post, too. Scared the heck out of me, but loved it. Would love to watch someone use it production, but not on my projects.
The post is amazing, but I distinctly remember the headache the first time I tried to read through it. Really heavy stuff.
I really can’t wait for Grant “You’re Grant Fritchey!!!” Fritchey’s post tomorrow.
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