Growing PASS Step One - Communication
My History with PASS
Over the last two years I have become more involved in the SQL Server community through attending...
2010-04-20
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Jack Corbett
- Interests: Sports, books, Bible
Checklist for having a Remote Presenter at your User Group
After having a bit of a tough time in the April OPASS meeting (read about it here), due to not...
2010-04-15
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OPASS April Meeting Recap
Well, we had our April meeting on Tuesday the 13th. Let's just say it wasn't our most successful meeting, and...
2010-04-14
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T-SQL Tuesday #005 – Don’t Send a Blank Report from a Report Subscription
Aaron Nelson (@SqlVariant) is hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday (#tsql2sday) and his topic is reporting.
One of the frustrations I have...
2010-04-13
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April OPASS Meeting Featuring Joe Webb
Tomorrow night, April 13th, at 6pm we will be having our April OPASS meeting, sponsored by Veredus Orlando with Joe...
2010-04-12
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SQLSaturday Orlando 2010 - The Planning Begins
Believe it or not, it's already time to start planning for Orlando's next SQLSaturday. Andy Warren and I had our...
2010-04-07
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PASS, Microsoft, and Certification
Steve Jones’ (@way0utwest) recent SQLServerCentral editorial, The Missing Certification, has spawned a vigorous debate about what the missing certification should...
2010-04-01
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Didn't I Just Post about Slipstream making Installs Easier?
So the other day I posted, Slipstream - Makes installs simple, and this afternoon I needed to do a SQL Server...
2010-03-30
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Slipstream - Makes installs simple
I was recently working on building a test environment for myself while I was studying for the MCITP-Database Administration exams. ...
2010-03-29
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A Personal Story about Networking
This is not a technical or SQL Server post, but it does illustrate the power of networking.
We recently took my...
2010-03-24
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Blogs
The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out...
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...
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Not Just an Upgrade
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Question of the Day
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