Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met people and made friends in the process. As I look back on it, I am...
2026-02-26
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I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met people and made friends in the process. As I look back on it, I am...
2026-02-26
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Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have been working with data for over thirty years. I think that just means I am...
2026-01-23 (first published: 2026-01-12)
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I can’t believe it’s finally here! A way to have Excel live in OneDrive and access it from Power BI nearly live! We can officially short cut files to...
2025-12-26 (first published: 2025-12-05)
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It has been a while since my last T-SQL Tuesday blog. When I saw Mike Walsh’s topic for T-SQL Tuesday #193, I was intrigued and inspired – “Notes to...
2025-12-24 (first published: 2025-12-09)
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When I created the website on WordPress, I was expecting all the features I had on our WordPress.com which powers this website. As I called out in my previous...
2025-11-21 (first published: 2025-11-20)
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Holy cow FabCon Vienna was incredible! This recap is extremely delayed because I’ve run into some serious decision fatigue about what to include (and my amazing hubby got me...
2025-11-18
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Over the past few months, I have debated starting a new blog to discuss our ALS journey. I realized we were writing about ALS on the Data on Wheels...
2025-11-08
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Had an incredible time at DevUp in St. Louis this weekend! This conference gets better and better each year and draws in some incredible folks from all over the...
2025-08-29 (first published: 2025-08-08)
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This weekend was one of my favorite Data Saturday events, Data Saturday Columbus! If you’re in the area, I highly recommend it. Always some great speakers, amazing lunch, and...
2025-08-19
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SQL Saturday Baton Rouge is a great event hosted on LSU’s campus that has some of the best food, presenters, and attendees in the country! Had some incredible questions...
2025-07-26
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By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
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I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers