SQL Saturday #150 Baton Rouge 2012
Baton Rouge SQL Saturday is Saturday, August 4!
We expect ~400 attendees at the brand new LSU Business Education Centre of...
2012-07-27
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Blog Posts
SQL Server 2008 R2 – Service Pack 2 now available
SQL Server Team, has announced the Service Packe 2 available for the SQL Server 2008 R2.
All the details are here
Stay...
2012-07-27
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SSRS – Using Lookup Function for Multiple Column Join
When SQL Server 2008 R2 was released several new Reporting Services expressions were made available that would help join multiple...
2012-07-27
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A Quick Guide to Expanding Database Files and IFI
This is a topic that’s been well covered, but in the interest of spreading good database practices, here’s a very...
2012-07-26
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Capacity considerations while moving SQL workloads to a Virtual world !
One of the most basic capacity considerations involved while planning to move SQL workloads to a virtual environment is to understand the...
2012-07-26
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Joining on NULLs
A problem I see on a fairly regular basis is that of dealing with NULL values. Specifically here, where we...
2012-07-26
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Last Call For Speakers for SQLSaturday Orlando
Our call for speakers for SQLSaturday #151 in Orlando closes on July 31, 2012. We’ve got room for a handful...
2012-07-26
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Retrieving Deadlock Graphs with Event Notification
Checkout my article (i.e. Retrieving Deadlock Graphs with Event Notification) that is published on SSWUG.org. This article shows the steps...
2012-07-26
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Working at Home Tips for Erin
A friend of mine, Erin Stellato (blog | @erinstellato) is about to change jobs. She’ll go from working in an office...
2012-07-26 (first published: 2012-07-23)
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Cross-Post: Set Milestones for Little Victories
This seemed appropriate to cross-post from Goal Keeping DBA given the editorial for today:
One of the first pieces of advice...
2012-07-25
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
By James Serra
I’m honored to be hosting T-SQL Tuesday — edition #192. For those who may...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
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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