The next webinar from SQLServerCentral will look at backups and how you can create faster, smaller, and verified backups. Join Steve Jones and Rodney Landrum for this presentation on SQL Backup Pro and SQL Virtual Restore
2011-01-27 (first published: 2011-01-18)
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31 Days of SSIS
Today, we continue on with the 31 Days of SSIS blog series. Yesterday’s post was on the...
2011-01-27
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Learn how you can connect to a SQL Azure database.
2011-01-27
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This question comes up constantly in different venues. I see it sometimes 2-3 times a day on SQL Server Central....
2011-01-27
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This is going to be a quick one…
I keep seeing forum code (and production code) that includes the DISTINCT in...
2011-01-26
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"A recent blog entry I read reminded me again that I wanted to rant about an issue in SQL Server for quite some time now. SQL Server 2005 introduced the separation between user and schema. Though schemata already existed before SQL Server 2005, they really became usable with this version, imho. At the same time TRY...CATCH was a new way for structured error handling introduced. And so it finally became possible…"
2011-01-26
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31 Days of SSIS
The last post in the 31 Days of SSIS talked about the use of environmental variables. As...
2011-01-25
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I set up a new instance of MS SQL Server Reporting Services, but I noticed that it starts up very slow and I have to wait for ages to access the site. I also noticed that it is always slow when it has not been used for a certain period of time.
2011-01-25
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Optimizing queries is the most fun when you don’t need to add indexes. There’s nothing quite so nice as finding...
2011-01-25
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2011-01-25 (first published: 2010-12-02)
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By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Not Just an Upgrade
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers