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This week, I had the opportunity to be the moderator for Joseph Barth’s (blog|twitter) 24 Hours of PASS Summit Preview session about Azure Data Factory V2. It was fun,...
2018-06-15
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This week, I had the opportunity to be the moderator for Joseph Barth’s (blog|twitter) 24 Hours of PASS Summit Preview session about Azure Data Factory V2. It was fun,...
2018-06-15
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I really enjoy my job. I became a full-time production DBA about 14 months ago and it has been an overwhelmingly positive move. I work for a good company...
2018-06-06
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Triggers can be really useful in your database but you have to be careful with them. We often use them to record history to a separate table (at least,...
2018-05-29
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This week I had a user come to me asking about how fields were defined on a few tables he was using in writing some reports. Long story short,...
2018-05-18
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Every year, I spend the Sunday after SQL Saturday Rochester scanning & processing raffle tickets for our wonderful sponsors. Here’s how the system works:
Attendees get tickets (one ticket per...
2018-04-10
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A couple weeks ago Carlos L. Cachon (blog|twitter) put out a call on Twitter looking for SQL Saturday organizers to join him on the SQL Data Partners Podcast. When...
2018-03-08
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This month’s T-SQL Tuesday from Aaron Bertrand gives us a choice:
Life beyond the technical in a search for what Drew with the Burdensome Name calls #sqlibrium Your own T-SQL...
2018-02-13
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I need a new social media profile picture.
That’s one of the most important (non-technical) conclusions I drew from my week at PASS Summit 2017. It seemed like everywhere I...
2018-02-05
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I wrote a post over on the dbatools website about how to get involved with improving comment-based help
Working on the CBH is a great way to get started with...
2017-11-29
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In the course of testing a major upgrade, one of my users in Accounting happened upon a problem with one of her scenarios. The web app we were working...
2017-11-22
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By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
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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