Consider All the Possibilities When Troubleshooting
When you are troubleshooting, the rule is if you've checked the obvious possibilities and still haven't solved the problem, it's...
2013-01-28
1,670 reads
Brian Kelley
- Interests: Chess, Reading, Soccer (Football), Baseball, Animals, Theology
Cash Over Credit
What does cash over credit have to deal with security? An awful lot, as it turns out.
Personal Story: Mere days...
2013-01-17
1,211 reads
Observe Carefully When Things Are Running Fine
Cross-posted from The Goal Keeping DBA blog:
As a worker in information technology, I’ve always been a big proponent of studying systems...
2013-01-14 (first published: 2013-01-10)
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Rename the SQL Server Management Studio shortcut
Jorge Segarra (blog | twitter) was giving a presentation and he remarked on how the SQL Server Management Studio shortcuts have...
2013-01-11
7,786 reads
Speaking at Midlands PASS in February
On February 12th I'll be giving a SQL Server Security Refresher for Midlands PASS at Microstaff IT in Cayce/West Columbia,...
2013-01-10
962 reads
Re-Awarded as a Microsoft MVP
Yesterday (January 1) I received the email indicating I was re-awarded as a Microsoft MVP, once again in SQL Server....
2013-01-02
1,188 reads
Looking Forward to the New Year - Professional Goals
Most folks make New Year's resolutions of things they want to do over the course of the next 364/365 days....
2013-01-01
1,307 reads
Are You a Chessplayer?
I was having a twitter coversation with @dataartisan about chess. He remarked that playing on-line with random folks didn't strike him...
2012-12-17
1,034 reads
Are Your Protecting Your DB Backups?
Folks have cited the recent InformationWeek article on how South Carolina's Department of Revenue was hacked because the SC state government...
2012-11-27
3,161 reads
Server Level Security
We'll discuss surface area later in the week. Today let's talk about if you're able to connect to SQL Server....
2012-11-09 (first published: 2012-11-06)
3,426 reads
Blogs
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As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out...
Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
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By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
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would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
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Not Just an Upgrade
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top I
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