Excel BI Tip #18: Using CUBE Functions to Break Out of Pivot Tables
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2015-02-04 (first published: 2015-01-27)
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Blog Posts
Some Thoughts About Microsoft’s Cloud Platform Roadmap
There have been a lot of changes in and around Microsoft in the past few months. Under the leadership of...
2015-02-04
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Some Thoughts About Microsoft’s Cloud Platform Roadmap
There have been a lot of changes in and around Microsoft in the past few months. Under the leadership of...
2015-02-04
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Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 47 (“Practical Monitoring with Extended Events”)
Continuation from the previous 46 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/
This post is a continuation from the the post 44, where I...
2015-02-03 (first published: 2015-01-26)
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Index Fragmentation in Azure SQL Database
Index Fragmentation in Azure SQL Database
FEBRUARY 4, 2015
Recently, I read the articles Stop Worrying About SQL Server Fragmentation and When Does Index Fragmentation Matter?, and that got me starting to...
2015-02-03
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POSTPONED to 02/11 - Speaking at the Omaha SQL Server User Group *Tomorrow* Night!
UPDATE - due to weather conditions today (snow this AM and sub-zero cold tonight) we are postponed to next Wednesday 02/11...
2015-02-03
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The most recent backup problem
When I first began this blog, back at the beginning of my DBA career, it was purely a place for...
2015-02-03
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TSQL Tuesday #63 – How do you manage security?
Come on down! You’re the next contestant on T-SQL Tuesday! I’m your host Kenneth Fisher and this month I’d thought...
2015-02-03
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Blame it on Connect
Some weeks ago I blogged about the discouraging signals coming from Connect and my post started a discussion that didn’t...
2015-02-02
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How to Rebuild MSDB database?
I suggest to have regular full backup of your system database along with user database. But if you do not...
2015-02-02
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Blogs
What is ALM in Fabric?
By HeyMo0sh
As someone who’s worked with data for over 20 years and with many cloud...
The Most Successful Startups in 2025 — And What They Have in Common
By HeyMo0sh
2025 belongs to the AI startups. If you peek into the tech headlines, you’ll...
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...
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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