PASS Speaker Idol 2015 – Todd Kleinhans
To All-
I am truly grateful I have been selected for this unique contest: http://www.dcac.co/your-pass-speaker-idol-2015-top-12-are
Good luck to all of my fellow...
2015-10-13
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Blog Posts
Power BI Tips, Tricks & Best Practices Webinar Recording & Materials Now Available
Thank you to everyone that attended my Power BI webinar last month, September 29th. Sorry its taken me a while...
2015-10-13
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Power BI Tips, Tricks & Best Practices Webinar Recording & Materials Now Available
Thank you to everyone that attended my Power BI webinar last month, September 29th. Sorry its taken me a while...
2015-10-13
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Putting Corrections in Perspective using Power BI
My enthusiasm for analyzing stock market data using Power BI – even after publishing two posts recently (this and this) – is at...
2015-10-13
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Running Parameterized Queries against SQL Server using PowerShell
For many years I didn’t really think about the implications of how I was retrieving data from my SQL Servers...
2015-10-13
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SQL Data Generator–Masking Production Data
I learned a new trick with SQL Data Generator that I wasn’t aware of previously. I think this is a...
2015-10-13 (first published: 2015-09-30)
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SQL server Encryption – Transparent Data Encryption
In the previous blogs we saw the use of certificates to encapsulate symmetric keys. How it benefits the user by...
2015-10-13
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Trace Flags in Azure SQL Database
One of the ways that you take more direct control over your SQL Server instances is through the use of...
2015-10-13 (first published: 2015-10-05)
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A tSQLt Mistake – Debugging a Test
While I was working on a test the other day, it kept failing. Not a big surprise, but I couldn’t...
2015-10-12
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A tSQLt Mistake – Debugging a Test
While I was working on a test the other day, it kept failing. Not a big surprise, but I couldn’t...
2015-10-12
437 reads
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...
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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