2011 PASS Board Election Results
Results of the 2011 PASS Board of Directors election were officially announced this morning. I want to congratulate my friends...
2011-12-28
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Kendal Van Dyke
2011 PASS Board Elections Notes
As I write this the final hours for the 2011 PASS Board of Directors elections are ticking away. Before the...
2011-12-20
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PASS Summit 2011 Session Evaluations
Session evaluations from the 2011 PASS Summit have been entered, calculated, and officially released to speakers. While I didn't make...
2011-12-15
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A PASS Board Of Directors Endorsement
One of the requirements for the PASS Board of Directors application was a collection of recommendations - 3 from volunteers, 3...
2011-12-09
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PASS Board Of Directors Voting Open Through Dec. 20
Voting for the 2011 PASS Board of Directors elections started earlier this week and if you were a PASS member...
2011-12-09
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Database Mirroring In A Windows Workgroup
Database Mirroring is a popular high availability solution and low-cost alternative to clustering, especially for smaller shops who can't afford...
2011-12-01
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PASS Board Of Directors Interview
I had my telephone interview for the PASS Board of Directors this afternoon and I'm cautiously optimistic that I did...
2011-11-08
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Why I'm Running For The PASS Board Of Directors
If you read this week's onnector email you may have noticed that I'm one of the six candidates who have...
2011-11-04
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My PASS Summit 2011 Experience
The 2011 PASS Summit is in the rear view mirror (has it really been almost three weeks now?)...and as always...
2011-11-02
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#SQLGive Update - New Dropoff Locations
Since announcing #SQLGive earlier this week I'm happy to report that two additional vendors have agreed to host dropoff boxes...
2011-10-07
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
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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