DBA 101: Altering a column
People always ask me what tools I use. Mostly this question comes from the topic of monitoring. I can honestly...
2017-02-06 (first published: 2017-02-02)
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People always ask me what tools I use. Mostly this question comes from the topic of monitoring. I can honestly...
2017-02-06 (first published: 2017-02-02)
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Foreign keys are an interesting feature of relational databases. They help enforce data integrity, sometimes help improve performance by eliminating...
2017-01-05 (first published: 2016-12-30)
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I’ve been in technology for twenty years now. I’ve seen hundreds of environments, nearly 300 while employed at Microsoft alone.
One...
2016-12-30
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I recently worked on a project for fraud. This project needed to relate 67 million accounts to one another “Kevin...
2016-12-27
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I was building out a blog post about cardinality today and noticed that sys.dm_exec_query_stats was getting cleared my my Surface...
2016-12-27 (first published: 2016-12-08)
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I was recently asked to help tune a stored procedure that has been historically taking between 55 and 60 seconds...
2016-12-15 (first published: 2016-11-30)
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I’ve managed to get my hands on a Nintendo NES Classic and I’m going to give it away. The details...
2016-12-13
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If you’re a DBA or a developer chances are you’ve looked at a query plan or two. While looking at...
2016-11-23 (first published: 2016-11-18)
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If you’re a DBA or database developer, chances are you will have to write or rewrite queries from time to...
2016-11-14 (first published: 2016-11-10)
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Let me start by saying that this isn’t your typical post about the Halloween problem. This is intended to describe...
2016-10-31
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By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
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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