DataOnWheels

Steve Hughes is the Director of Consulting at 3Cloud. In my current role, I manage the West and Central Data & AI consultant team at 3Cloud. I did a similar role at Pragmatic Works before our merger with 3Cloud. I focus on team development and company growth with this role. In my previous role as a Principal Consultant Lead at Pragmatic Works, I focused on designing solutions for customers on Microsoft technologies including SQL Server, Power Platform, and Azure.

Kristyna Hughes is the Team Lead for BI at GlobalTranz. I have played an instrumental role in moving our company from 3 different reporting platforms to hosting our reporting within Power BI. I provide advice on security structures within the platform, manage the gateways, create and implement design strategies, train, and build reports for both our internal operations committee and external customers. I will also be aiding in embedding Power BI within an unified TMS and ensuring various levels of security are maintained within the embedded reports.

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FabCon 2025 Recap

Hey fellow data friends! Wow, March was an absolutely crazy month (in the best way). It was incredible to see so many folks in Redmond for the MVP Summit,...

2025-04-30 (first published: )

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SQL Saturday Atlanta BI Recap

https://sqlsaturday.com/2025-03-08-sqlsaturday1102/#schedule SQL Saturday Atlanta BI is one of my favorite SQL Saturdays of the year. This year was especially sweet to see a lot of the SML (Saturday Morning...

2025-03-10

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Restoring On Top II

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SQL Art 2: St Patrick’s Day in SSMS (Shamrock + Pint + Pixel Text)

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Breaking Down Your Work

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Question of the Day

Restoring On Top II

I have a database, DNRTest, that has a number of tables and other objects in it. The other day, I was trying to mock up a test and ran this code on the same server:

-- run yesterday
CREATE DATABASE DNRTest2
GO
USE DNRTest2
GO
CREATE TABLE NewTable (id INT)
GO
Today, I realize that I need a copy of DNRTest for another mockup, and I run this:
-- run today
USE Master
BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak'
GO
RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest2 FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACE
What happens?

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