SQLPASS Day 2: Keynote Live Blog
Them's some SEXY DBAs...
I’m live blogging the PASS keynote…it’s 8:44 local time.
Here’s the PASS website description of the day 2 keynote...
2010-11-10
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Jen McCown
SQLPASS Day 2: WIT Luncheon Live Blog
12:42pm local time at the live streamed Women in Technology luncheon…let’s blog. I’ll italicize my comments, to differentiate betwee that...
2010-11-10
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SQLPASS Day 1: Keynote Live Blog
Day 1 Keynote Jumps the Shark with Tina Turner Impersonator
I’m live blogging the PASS keynote…it’s 8:38 local time.
You wouldn’t guess...
2010-11-09
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MERGE Statement Corrected, or, How to Eat Crow in Public
Better pull out the excuse-o-meter
I have no excuse, none whatsoever.
In my T-SQL Brush-Up presentation to the North Texas SQL Server...
2010-11-03
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Attend the PASS Summit From Home
You there, sitting in your cube and fuming at all the PASS Summit talk: you couldn’t talk your company into...
2010-11-01
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A Little SSMS Wish
IN SQL Server 2000, we didn’t have the fancy-schmancy Management Studio…we had Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer, and we liked em,...
2010-10-27
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SQL Saturday #56 BI Edition Wrap-up
On Saturday I (unexpectedly) presented at Dallas’ first Business Intelligence-focused SQL Saturday at the Microsoft campus in Irving. I wasn’t on...
2010-10-25
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SQL Saturday #56 – The 24 hour Challenge
SQL Saturday #56, Dallas BI edition, is tomorrow. Last night before the NTSSUG meeting, we had an unusually high number of...
2010-10-22
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Ground Zero Database Design: Part 2
Last week I wrote Ground Zero Database Design, thinking that was a good enough bare-bones intro (with recommended reading!) that...
2010-10-20
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SQLKilt / WIT Shirts
This shirt was specifically requested by an online friend who shall remain nameless (his name rhymes with “Duck Hoodie”). Another...
2010-10-20
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
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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...
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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