2012-03-07
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Blog Posts
Choosing the Right Microsoft Reporting Technology Part 2: Excel
This post is a continuation of a series started to help you understand each of the Microsoft presentation layer tools...
2012-03-06
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Configure Anti-Virus on your SQL Server
This week I had an application team report the error “SQL Connection Lost”. Fortunately they also reported the exact times...
2012-03-06
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Date Dimension Script with Fiscal Year
One dimension you can be positive will always make it’s way into your data warehouse is the Date dimension. Over...
2012-03-06
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First SQL Server 2012 Launch Event
I asked a few questions on twitter this morning after a friend of mine said they were have problems downloading...
2012-03-06
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How to log off remote desktop users from a remote machine ?
When you try to log on to a remote server on emergency to perform some task , it may throw an...
2012-03-06
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Introduction to SharePoint BI Webinar Tomorrow
Tomorrow at 11AM Eastern time I will be presenting a FREE webinar for Pragmatic Works (website) on Introduction to SharePoint...
2012-03-06
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Most DBAs Don’t Seem to Know that Transaction Logs Can be Tuned
I was very surprised to see the results of my latest poll, which asked “When was the last time you...
2012-03-06 (first published: 2012-02-27)
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Moving MSDB to new location
In recent past we have a situation where in we required to move MSDB, Model and Master databases to new...
2012-03-06
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Notes from the February 2012 MagicPASS Meeting
I was back at MagicPASS last week to do a presentation, my first time with the group at the new...
2012-03-06
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Blogs
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...
Deployment Pipelines in Fabric – What Are They?
By HeyMo0sh
In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as...
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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