PASS Summit Code of Conduct – my thoughts
The big furor today is over PASS‘s new written Code of Conduct. I’m going to crib unashamedly from Nic Cain’s blog post...
2012-08-21
1,172 reads
Jen McCown
Webcast: The Art and Science of Handling Recruiters
Post-webcast update: The webcast went well! We talked, we QnA’ed, we gave out a free Roadmap, and all attendees got...
2012-08-21
823 reads
Quick Tip: Accurate Log Shipping Status
Here’s a quick reminder for those of you using log shipping, and checking the SSMS report “Transaction Log Shipping Status”...
2012-08-16
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Dear #SQLAwesomesauce: Is this idea batsh** crazy?
I’ve been out of town and off the grid – nothing like 10 days of family camping and roadtripping to unwind!...
2012-08-15
866 reads
Notes to a DBA who wishes to know more
I just sent this off to a fellow DBA who wanted some resources. You may also be one of those,...
2012-08-02
984 reads
Bad business practices damage your company, KRG Technology
I just composed and sent this message to eleven members of a single California-based recruitment company. I’ll let the email...
2012-07-31
1,732 reads
A Quick Guide to Expanding Database Files and IFI
This is a topic that’s been well covered, but in the interest of spreading good database practices, here’s a very...
2012-07-26
1,089 reads
Puzzling TVFunctions
I had the opportunity to tune a highly-used function the other day, and was most puzzled by the difference between...
2012-07-17
916 reads
MidnightDBA tutorials and webshow now on iTunes!
We’ve been slacking for way too long, but as of this week our video RSS feed is up to date!...
2012-07-16
696 reads
SQL Cruise! SQL Saturdays! Summit! SQL-SQL-SQL!
We’re drawing to the end of our third season of DBAs@Midnight (our weekly webshow by DBAs, for DBAs), and to the...
2012-07-13
756 reads
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...
Forums
would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I'm thinking about submitting some articles
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
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