OT: Rewriting History
I’ve been blogging for a few months. During that time I’ve received comments about my grammar, sentence construction and paragraph...
2009-10-11
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Wesley Brown
- Interests: Collecting old computers
- Skills: I talk a lot.
Adventures in SQL CLR and C#
I’ve toyed with the CLR in SQL Sever 2005 off and on since the first Yukon beta had it enabled....
2009-10-09
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SQL Server MVP Deep Dives
I’ve been reading through this book and it really does have something for everyone at any level.
I think it...
2009-09-29
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Fundamentals of Storage Systems - The Basics of Spinning Disks
Your servers are only as fast as the slowest part, hard drives.
To feed other parts of the system we have...
2009-09-28
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Fundamentals of Storage Systems - The Basics of Spinning Disks
Your servers are only as fast as the slowest part, hard drives.To feed other parts of the system we have...
2009-09-17
3,332 reads
The Fundamentals of Storage Systems - Introduction
At least once a year I give a large talk on disk subsystems, IO and SQL Server. It’s a ground...
2009-09-14
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Meeting Sept 15th at the Microsoft Technology Center - Auditing Considerations: Native SQL 2008 and Third Party Auditing Technologies.15
Hello all!
We will be having our normal meeting at the Microsoft technology center sponsored by:
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Stonebridge Plaza, Building One...
2009-09-12
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What I’ve Read and Recommend to Others – Joe Celko Edition
I’ve known Joe for a number of years and have a lot of respect for his experience and knowledge around...
2009-09-11
856 reads
Product Review: SQL Pretty Printer
SQL Pretty Printer for SQL Server Management Studio $39.95 single user $99.95 site license
having coding standards is a must for...
2009-09-05
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Meeting August 19th Austin, TX Brian Knight on SQL Server Analysis Services
If you are in Austin you should stop by!
If you want to know what is going on SQL Server wise...
2009-08-18
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Blogs
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...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
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