SSMS Keyboard Shortcut Fun
Andrea Allred (@RoyalSQL) just gave her SQL tips and tricks session at SQL Saturday Salt Lake City, and a great time was had by all! I learned some things...
2019-08-03
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Jen McCown
Fun with PowerShell: I made a game
So we got to playing around with PowerShell last week – one son is making a game hack, and the other...
2018-11-19
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Live blog: Women in Technology lunch at #PASSSummit #passwit
11:48am This will be starting shortly! We’re stuffing our faces, first. Today’s featured speaker is Lauri Bingham, Director of Technology Engineering...
2018-11-08
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SQL work-vacation, Thursday! (#Workation #PASSSummit)
Hello yet again! I’ve been writing about our time this week in Seattle, for the PASS Summit. Saturday, I wrote that we’re here...
2018-11-08
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SQL work-vacation, Monday (#Workation #PASSSummit)
Hello again! Sunday, I wrote that we’re here in Seattle for the PASS Summit, and that it’s my tenth year. AND that...
2018-11-05
190 reads
SQL work-vacation, T-2 days (#Workation #PASSSummit)
We are at PASS Summit 2018 in Seattle, and I will write a bit about each day I'm here, just...
2018-11-04
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Regular Expressions: tagging expressions
I re-discovered something very cool while using RegEx in SSMS today: tagging expressions and referencing them in the same line! I’ll take...
2018-10-15
376 reads
sqlhelp: limit the x-axis of a geometry line graph
I have a #sqlhelp question that requires some code. So hey, blog post time! TL;DR: the geometry::STGeomFromText graph provides too wide...
2018-09-26
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More PowerShell for fun (and profit) – filter files by date
PowerShell provides an easy way to search for and/or delete just the files you want. Let's look at navigating in...
2018-09-24
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All about PASS Summit 2018
Here are the things you must/should probably know about PASS Summit 2018, as told by me. First Timers Read this...
2018-09-19
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
Deployment Pipelines in Fabric – What Are They?
By HeyMo0sh
In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as...
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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers