The Murder Train is making a stop in Salt Lake City
You know, these 1 hour sessions that are at most SQL Saturdays are just too short sometimes – you just get...
2014-10-16
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Blog Posts
UNION vs UNION ALL
You might be wondering why I’m going into such a simple subject. Well the way I see it there are...
2014-10-16
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What will you see at SQL in the City
London, Oct 24, 2014
Seattle, Nov 3, 2014
Come join us.
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2014-10-16
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Beware the defaults! (in windowing functions)
Some time ago I was writing some windowing functions on a set of data. Basically I was looking for the...
2014-10-15 (first published: 2014-10-07)
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Can’t Create A Timeline in Excel on Multidimensional Cube
Excel 2013 - We can’t create a Timeline for this report because it doesn’t have a field formatted as Date.
After getting...
2014-10-15
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Hell No, DMO - DMV is what it shall be!
So, I've finally decided to draw a line in the sand. I've been doing some writing lately. The radio silence...
2014-10-15
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I'm an MVP
Hello Dear Reader! Two weeks ago I was very honored to be named a Microsoft SQL Server MVP. Since then...
2014-10-15
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Lync 2013 Video Issues on Windows 8
Part of the reason I have a blog is to document issues and resolutions I do not want to forget....
2014-10-15
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PASS Election Results for 2014
The election results were just posted. Congratulations to James Rowland-Jones, Wendy Pastrick, and Grant Fritchey for earning seats on the...
2014-10-15
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PASS SQL Saturday Events: November 2014
DateEventNovember 1 SQLSaturday #339 – Shanghai 2014November 1 SQLSaturday #337 – Oregon 2014November 22 SQLSaturday #355 – Parma, Italy 2014November 22 SQLSaturday #353...
2014-10-15
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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...
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A Quick Restore
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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
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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