I recently came across an organization who had very interesting infrastructure setup. Their business domains is analytics. They process millions of the records and how many clients who have case sensitive tags on their server which they want to measure. However, there are many places they do not want to care about case sensitivity. They had peta bytes of the data on their server. Let us learn about Creating Database with Different Collation on Server.
Whenever I am suggesting something which changes how database works or the existing status of the database, my suggestion along with it is to take the database backup before making such changes. If the changes are in configurations, that can be easily revert but if the changes are such that it will impact the data, I always suggest to take backup. The nature of this blog is such that we have readership from readers with different expertise, some are experts and some are novice.
Some questions never get old. Let me list a few of them. As the year 2012 is about to end, today I will talk about three of the most asked questions to me in an email. Let us learn about restoring databases.Â