SQL Saturday Returns to Rochester!
The Rochester, NY chapter of PASS is holding our 6th annual SQL Saturday on April 29th, 2017! As always, RIT is hosting our event on campus.
SQL Saturday is a free day of training centered...
2016-12-23
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FLX SQL
Don't Count on Me
This post is in support of Tim Ford’s (blog|twitter) #iwanttohelp challenge. And also written because this has burned me twice in the past 3 months and by blogging about it,...
2016-11-26
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T-SQL Tuesday #83: Why Leave Well Enough Alone?
It’s 2016. So why are we still dealing with T-SQL code and design patterns that were designed 7 versions ago?
In the 15 years I have been using databases professionally, we’re still...
2016-10-11
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Name Your Defaults So SQL Server Doesn't
Something in SQL Server that isn’t always obvious to beginners is that when you create a default value for a column on a table, SQL Server creates a constraint...
2016-01-19
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SQL New Blogger Challenge November 2015 Edition - Week 3 Digest
This week’s #sqlnewblogger posts!
Author Post @eleightondick [[T-SQL Tuesday] Data modeling: The trouble with prefixes @tomsql Adventures With TomSQL, aka Tom Staab @EdDebug [Automatically name primary key constraints in SSDT...
2015-11-19
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Selectively Locking Down Data - Gracefully
I have a situation where I need to retrieve the data in an encrypted column from, but don’t want to give all my users access to the symmetric key...
2015-11-18
5 reads
SQL New Blogger Challenge November 2015 Edition - Week 2 Digest
This week’s #sqlnewblogger posts!
Author Post @arrowdrive Anders On SQL: T-SQL Tuesday #72: Data modelling gone extremely wrong @rabryst Time After Time - An Introduction to Temporal Tables in SQL...
2015-11-12
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Don't Trust the Wizard
If you need to move data from one table into a new table, or even tables in a database into another database, the Import/Export Wizard in SQL Server Management...
2015-11-11
6 reads
SQL New Blogger Challenge, November Edition, Week 1 Digest
Ed Leighton-Dick has renewed his New Blogger Challenge this month. Here are all (I think) the posts for this week after Ed posted his announcement. If I’ve missed any, please let...
2015-11-05
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Why Ask Why?
Spend any time around a 4 year old, and you will inevitably find yourself involved in a conversation which evolves into this:
Please do this thing Why? Reasonable answer Why? Restatement...
2015-11-04
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Blogs
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...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
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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