Analysis of DBA professionals salary’s 2017 using PowerBI
On the 5th of January, Brent Ozar (b|t) launched a survey on “Tell Us What You Make: The 2017 Data Professional...
2017-01-23
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Blog Posts
Bad Idea Jeans: Query Optimization Through Minification
SQL is pretty verbose compared to some languages. It's a pretty big disappointment that I have to type out select...
2017-01-23
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Bad Idea Jeans: Query Optimization Through Minification
SQL is pretty verbose compared to some languages. It's a pretty big disappointment that I have to type out select...
2017-01-23
220 reads
Data About Execution Plans
If you look at the Properties for the first operator of a graphical execution plan, you get all sorts of great...
2017-01-23
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Datediff: We’ve Been Doing It Wrong
One of the most common mistakes people make when writing T-SQL is using a function in the where clause, and...
2017-01-23
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Error While running PowerShell code from SQL Agent job – “Path Does Not Exist”
Issue: When I am running code from PowerShell console its running fine but when I execute it through SQL agent...
2017-01-23
1,045 reads
How to Exclude Entire Sections in VS Schema Compare
Right now I am so excited, and a little embarrassed. After using Visual Studio (VS) for database projects for the...
2017-01-23
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Monday Coffee 2017-01-23
I like to think of myself as a fairly hardworking, motivated person. However I recently met someone who regularly gets...
2017-01-23
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Notes from the January 2017 oPASS/MagicPASS Meeting
This was a good meeting. About 50 attendees showed up at Nova (we use their space for joint meetings) to...
2017-01-23
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Power BI Subscriptions
Newly added to the Power BI Service is a much awaited feature called Power BI Subscriptions. If you’ve worked in...
2017-01-23 (first published: 2017-01-17)
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
A Quick Restore
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Guarding Against SQL Injection at the Database Layer (SQL Server)
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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
Question of the Day
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