How To Enlarge Your Columns With No Downtime
Let’s face it: column enlargement is a very sensitive topic. I get thousands of emails every month on this particular...
2017-11-15
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Blog Posts
Installing the MDS add-in for Excel 2016
For some reason I attract all kinds of misery when working with Master Data Services. Today I was trying to...
2017-11-15
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Learning to Give Presentations Well (Part 2)
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In Part 1, I gave some advice from Toastmasters. We’ll return to the Toastmasters advice in Part 3....
2017-11-15
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Microsoft Connect(); announcements
Microsoft Connect(); is a developer event from Nov 15-17, where plenty of announcements are made. Here is a summary of the data...
2017-11-15
538 reads
Microsoft Connect(); announcements
Microsoft Connect(); is a developer event from Nov 15-17, where plenty of announcements are made. Here is a summary of the data...
2017-11-15
73 reads
Over-Indexing can hurt your SQL Server performance
Indexes are a vast subject and well documented elsewhere on the web. But, it is still a very commonly asked...
2017-11-15 (first published: 2017-11-05)
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PowerShell for fun (and profit?)
Let's have a liltle fun with PowerShell. Along with, I suppose, a couple of useful things and links.
The post PowerShell...
2017-11-15
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Presenting Azure Vs. Working With Azure
I have a real infatuation with Azure. I’m especially interested in the Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings in and...
2017-11-15
300 reads
Running any AzureRM powershell command tells you to "Run Login-AzureRmAccount to login." even though you are logged in!
Every AzureRM command I was running I would get an error message telling me to login, I then did a login, checked that I had the right subscription and...
2017-11-15
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Running any AzureRM powershell command tells you to "Run Login-AzureRmAccount to login." even though you are logged in!
Every AzureRM command I was running I would get an error message telling me to login, I then did a...
2017-11-15
280 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
By James Serra
I’m honored to be hosting T-SQL Tuesday — edition #192. For those who may...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers