We’re All Mad Here!
The title says it all!
I just heard that I was selected to present at SQL Saturday in Columbus! I’m excited...
2014-05-09
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Chris
2014 SQL Server Editions – Overview
2014 is the latest edition of SQL Server available[/caption]
SQL Server 2014 was officially released in April 1st, 2014. You can...
2014-04-22
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Why a Boot Camp?
As a some of you may already know, I am now offering SQL Server boot camps with the first one...
2014-04-15
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When Data Should Walk Out The Door
What would you do?
What would your reaction be if, one day, all that old data you’ve been holding onto for...
2014-03-24 (first published: 2014-03-18)
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Counting Work Days
Don’t forget that most holiday’s aren’t work days.
Recently while working with a client I was faced with some seriously convoluted...
2013-09-21
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Digby’s Top 10 reasons you need a DBA
Digby! helps to demonstrate the top 10 reasons you need a dedicated SQL Server DBA.
They can handle unexpected database growth...
2013-05-21
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Optimizing Protected Indexes (was Indexing Encrypted Data)
Why bother encrypting?
Riddle me this batman? Why bother to Encrypt?
As a SQL Server DBA I am primarily responsible for making...
2013-02-27
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Type 2 SCD with SQL Merge
I was going through some notes I had from previous projects and came across a sample script for created a...
2013-01-25
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Gain exclusive control of a database
Last night a client tried to ruin a script to enable Read_Committed_snapshot on a SQL database. There were so many...
2012-10-10
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10-minute SQL: Filtered Delete: join vs. sub-select vs. exist
I was doing some simple tuning of procedures for a client when I came across some delete statements that I...
2012-10-05
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Blogs
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
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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
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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