Spring Planting 2010
Spring fever is running hot here in Parker, Colorado, after a long winter. Last year, I put in a Square...
2010-04-19
795 reads
Glenn Berry
Goggle PowerMeter Update
As I have mentioned before, I have a TED 5000 electric power monitor installed in my house that monitors and...
2010-04-19
573 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 18
The DMV for Day 18 is sys.dm_clr_tasks, which is described by BOL as:
Returns a row for all common language runtime...
2010-04-18
1,715 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 17
The DMV for Day 17 is sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns counts of different types of index operations...
2010-04-17
904 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 16
We have two DMVs for Day 16. The first one is sys.dm_exec_cached_plans, which is described by BOL as:
Returns a row...
2010-04-16
664 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 15
The DMV for Day 15 is sys.dm_os_performance_counters, which is described by BOL as:
Returns a row per performance counter maintained by...
2010-04-15
1,476 reads
Microsoft Changing Their Lifecycle Support Policy
Microsoft’s Bob Ward has a new post up on the CSS SQL Server Engineers blog about a change in their...
2010-04-14
1,726 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 14
The DMV for Day 14 is sys.dm_os_wait_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns information about all the waits encountered by...
2010-04-14
783 reads
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RTM Available and Installed
Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie had a good post up yesterday that highlights some of the new features in Visual Studio 2010....
2010-04-13
507 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 13
The DMV for Day 13 is sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns I/O statistics for data and log files....
2010-04-13
1,194 reads
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...
Forums
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Restoring On Top I
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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