SQL In The City: Austin
So, No SQL Saturday in Austin This Year.
I know a lot of folks were disappointed that we (POSSE) weren’t able to pull together in...
2012-09-25
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Wesley Brown
- Interests: Collecting old computers
- Skills: I talk a lot.
Demystifying SQL Server Differential Database Backups
Odd Man Out
SQL Server has three backup types. Two you have heard of and used. One, while useful, isn’t very well understood.
Let’s...
2012-09-10 (first published: 2012-09-06)
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Free Tools for Testing SQL Sever
You Need To Test Your SQL Server!
Its like screaming “TEST THE BREAKS ON YOUR CAR!” If you don’t have the...
2012-08-16
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Speaking at PASS Summit 2012
It’s Not A Repeat
Speaking at the PASS Summit last year was one of the highlights of my career. I had...
2012-08-14
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SQL Rally 2012 Recap
Much Learning Was Had By All
SQL Rally 2012 had a diverse group of speakers and something for all levels of...
2012-05-14
854 reads
Speaking In April #SQLSat111 and #SQLSat107
All Quite on the Western Front
It is going to get noisy soon though! I”m speaking at SQLSaturday #111 in Atlanta...
2012-04-10
963 reads
Solid State Disks and SQL Server
An interesting result from a recent test of SSDs in SQL Server by Wes Brown. A surprising discovery is important for anyone thinking about using SSDs to know.
2012-03-09 (first published: 2010-04-08)
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2011 What A Great Year
What A Diffrince A Year Makes
In January I posted up my new years list basically, stuff I wanted to learn in...
2011-12-22
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SQLSaturday 97 Speaker Recap
Great Content + Great Speakers = Awesome Event
All the evaluations have been tallied, its official SQLSaturday #97 was a hit! As a...
2011-11-22
797 reads
SQL Server 2012 RC0 Is Here
SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate 0, Time To Get Serious
With the release of RC0 Microsoft has signaled that the release...
2011-11-21
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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...
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would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
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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