Tip: OVER and PARTITION BY
I like to repost this blog about once a year, because you really really need to know about windowing functions....
2012-11-28 (first published: 2012-11-26)
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Jen McCown
Blogging for Beginners
Last week at the PASS Summit, I had several conversations with several different aspiring bloggers, and found myself saying the...
2012-11-20
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Find Duplicate (and covered) Indexes
A while back, I wrote a simple little query that lets you Get Index Included Column Info (because sp_help and sp_helpindex only...
2012-10-11
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Lose #5 Before #sqlpass
Win Valuable Prizes!
Impress Your Friends!
This week we’re starting up a health and weight loss competition that I hereby dub #PASSGameOn,...
2012-10-10
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Interview with a #SQLPASS Candidate – @NTSSUG’s Sri Sridharan!
Last week, Sri Sridharan (Twitter, blog) and I sat down on the Internet to talk about his run for the...
2012-10-09
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PASS Summit: What’s all the hype?
Last week I received this comment/question from one of my fabulous First Timers:
I have a good natured question coming from...
2012-10-08
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PASS First Timers Guide and Schedule – 2012 edition
Hi there ho there everybody! It’s less than five (FIVE!) three (THREE!)one (ONE!!) week until the 2012 PASS Summit in Seattle,...
2012-10-03
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Register for Sean’s Dallas precon!
On October 13, Dallas will hold our second ever Special Bi Edition of SQLSaturday Dallas - #SQLSat163 for you Twitter folk...
2012-09-14
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Stressed? Need training? Take a #SQLCruise!
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve sat in a training room, in the middle of a week long...
2012-09-06
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Our weekly webshow starts Friday! #DBAsAtMidnight
Let’s pretend we’ve never met. Depending on who you are, maybe we haven’t. It’s beside the point, really.
So hi, I’m...
2012-09-04
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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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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