For those who want to be a Junior DBA
I’ve been fortunate to have spoken at a few SQL Saturday events this year, and one of the sessions I’ve had the pleasure of presenting has been about getting...
2019-08-01
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Blog Posts
Interview with Aaron Bertrand
This is the fifth interview we have done. This time our guest is Aaron Bertrand! Aaron is one of the most community oriented person I know and he really...
2019-08-01
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Learning Powershell with Show-Command
Years ago I blogged about how I like to use the SSMS scripting feature to learn how to do things. ... Continue reading
2019-08-01 (first published: 2019-07-11)
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SQL Server Management Studio
Hopefully you know that SSMS is a separate install from the main SQL Server install. You can find the binaries from Microsoft (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/download-sql-server-management-studio-ssms) Using SSMS version 18.2, whilst playing...
2019-08-01
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SQL Server Metadata using Powershell
If you are new at your job or a new client you would like to gather and review the sql server meta data to understand the environment and get...
2019-08-01 (first published: 2019-07-10)
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Teaching DevOps in Indianapolis
There is literally nothing I like better than working on automation. Before we had all the cool toys that we have now, I was working on automating database deployments....
2019-08-01
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Automating Replication On Your Server
If you use replication, you have had the situation occur where you had to restore a replicated database. You’ve have doubtless been paged to restore a replicated database. You...
2019-07-31
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Containers make easy upgrades
I’ve been working with containers and writing a bit about them for awhile. I find them to be fascinating and useful as a technology, and I’ve come to really...
2019-07-31 (first published: 2019-07-10)
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Header Query Crossword
I did an interesting form of crossword recently and since I haven’t done one in a while I figured this ... Continue reading
2019-07-31
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How to store a password in a database
Hello, and welcome to today’s class on storing passwords in a database. Don’t store passwords in a database. Thanks for attending. Photo by James Sutton on Unsplash.
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2019-07-31
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
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