Friday Followup For June 6, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-06-06
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Blog Posts
Is PowerShell worth the time?
This is a good question for me to ask. I’ve been learning it, and working through examples in my PowerShell...
2014-06-06 (first published: 2014-06-04)
3,773 reads
Reblog: May 30 to June 5
Photo credit – Jenn and Tony Bot
Sometimes old stuff is just as cool as new stuff. Over the past few years,...
2014-06-06
769 reads
Speaker of the Month, June 2014
It’s not like I can’t find plenty of great presentations here in the US, but, while I was over in...
2014-06-06
751 reads
Using a Hyper-V VHD in an Azure VM
I’m in the process of moving some my lab environments that I use for teaching SQL Server classes to Azure....
2014-06-06
1,290 reads
Attaching All Databases with PowerShell–Refactoring out Write-Host
Someone posted a note to me on Twitter that noted that Write-Host is not recommended for your scripts. I checked...
2014-06-05
1,043 reads
Natively Compiled Procedures and Execution Plans
The combination of in-memory tables and natively compiled procedures in SQL Server 2014 makes for some seriously screaming fast performance....
2014-06-05
1,361 reads
Who has the DAC open?
The other day I started seeing the following error in my SQL log.
Error: 17810, Severity: 20, State: 2.
Could not connect...
2014-06-05 (first published: 2014-05-28)
2,620 reads
15 years of experience with Identity columns
An identity column is an auto incrementing columnAn identity column is typically used as a primary keyA primary key that’s...
2014-06-04
1,051 reads
A Sherlockian Question Of the Day & Why I’m Writing Questions
If you haven’t noticed by now I’ve been writing quite a few questions of the day for SQLServerCentral. It started,...
2014-06-04
332 reads
Blogs
The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out...
Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
Forums
would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I'm thinking about submitting some articles
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
Not Just an Upgrade
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers