The 5 Scariest Moments for a SQL Server Developer
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While families and friends are scaring each other this Halloween week with stories of ghosts and ghouls, I thought it'd be way scarier to talk...
2018-10-30
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Bert Wagner
Unexpected Shorthand Date Implicit Conversions
I do my best work in the mornings. Evenings are pretty good too once I get a second wind.
Late afternoon...
2018-10-30 (first published: 2018-10-23)
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Conditionally Returning Rows Based On Query Results
While I normally prefer formatting my query results in a downstream app/reporting layer, sometimes I can’t get around adding some...
2018-10-29 (first published: 2018-10-16)
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Unexpected Shorthand Date Implicit Conversions
I do my best work in the mornings. Evenings are pretty good too once I get a second wind.
Late afternoon are my nemesis for getting any serious technical or...
2018-10-23
7 reads
Unexpected Shorthand Date Implicit Conversions
I do my best work in the mornings. Evenings are pretty good too once I get a second wind.
Late afternoon are my nemesis for getting any serious technical or...
2018-10-23
5 reads
The Project Graveyard
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #107 prompt by Jeff Mlakar. T-SQL Tuesday is a way...
2018-10-18 (first published: 2018-10-09)
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Conditionally Returning Rows Based On Query Results
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While I normally prefer formatting my query results in a downstream app/reporting layer, sometimes I can't get around adding some business formatting logic to...
2018-10-16
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Conditionally Returning Rows Based On Query Results
Watch this week's video on YouTube
While I normally prefer formatting my query results in a downstream app/reporting layer, sometimes I can't get around adding some business formatting logic to...
2018-10-16
4 reads
Power BI Dashboards, Reports, and Datasets with the SQL Chefs
This week I had the opportunity to learn about dashboards, reports, and datasets in Power BI using the best kind...
2018-10-11 (first published: 2018-10-02)
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The Project Graveyard
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #107 prompt by Jeff Mlakar. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about...
2018-10-09
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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
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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