The Power of Hadoop
Hadoop is an open source framework for working with data, and one that Microsoft has adopted. Is it worth using in your environment? Steve Jones thinks you should investigate it.
2012-02-27
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A Break from Databases
A Friday poll that's a break from work, and should be a bit of fun. Today Steve Jones asks about movies, and what's been interesting from the last year.
2012-02-24
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No MVP Summit for Me
On the corner of my rather messy desk is little recognition item in the image to the right. It’s a...
2012-02-24
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2012-02-24
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Future Virtual Machines
What's the benefit of virtual machines and hypervisors? Steve Jones has a few comments on them and their future.
2012-02-23
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2012-02-22
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Where’s My Backup? SQL Server Backup Issues
You can cause yourself problems if you don’t know where your backups are stored, and how they are being made....
2012-02-21
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2012-02-20
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Programmers v Salespeople
This Friday Steve Jones asks whether you think the salespeople or the technical people are more important to the success of a company. And if they should be better compensated.
2012-02-17
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Creating Your Own Certificates
Did you know that you don’t need to go to Digicert or Thawte, or any other company to get a...
2012-02-16
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Blogs
Building the Team: Roles and Responsibilities in FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
In my experience, FinOps success has never been just about tools or dashboards. It...
Tooling for Success: The Best FinOps Tools and Technologies
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps person, I know that to make FinOps successful, you need more...
From Planning to Practice: Setting Up Your FinOps Framework
By HeyMo0sh
As someone who works in DevOps, I’m always focused on creating systems that are...
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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) GOToday, 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 REPLACEWhat happens? See possible answers