Updated Overlapping Statistics Scripts
Last year I published a script for identifying automatically generated column statistics that overlapped index statistics. I've updated the script...
2011-04-05
1,697 reads
Kendal Van Dyke
Meme Monday
Replication: It's Not Really As Bad As SQLRockStar Says It Is
(Wondering what the heck this is supposed to be about?...
2011-04-04
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Announcing The Association For SQL Server
Recently there have been a number of PASS members who have become unhappy with the direction of the organization and...
2011-04-01
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Has Microsoft Desktop Virtualization Reached The End Of The Road?
I'm a big proponent of using Virtual Machines for development on your local machine. It just doesn't make sense to...
2011-03-15
611 reads
STS-134 Rollout
If you follow me on Twitter or talk to me in person you'll come to realize I'm a space enthusiast....
2011-03-15
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MagicPASS March 2011 Meeting Notice
If you're in the central Florida area you're invited to the March meeting of MagicPASS, South Orlando's SQL Server User...
2011-03-11
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I've Got A New Job
You've probably noticed I've been quiet on this blog lately, eeking out a post every other week on average. I've...
2011-02-24
1,523 reads
How Can I Help You Go To SQLRally?
I bet by now you've heard of SQLRally, be it from the blogosphere, Twitter, the PASS Connector bi-weekly emails, word...
2011-02-23
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MagicPASS February 2011 Meeting
If you're in the central Florida area you're invited to the February 2011 meeting of MagicPASS, South Orlando's SQL Server...
2011-02-15
535 reads
Presenting "Secrets Of SQL Server" Idera Webcast On Feb. 16
On Wednesday, Feb 16th, 3 PM Eastern I'm presenting a webcast for Idera's Secrets of SQL Server series. Presentation details...
2011-02-15
715 reads
Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
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...
Forums
I'm thinking about submitting some articles
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
Not Just an Upgrade
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Restoring On Top I
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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