I am writing this blog post as contribution to #NewStarNovember and what got me re-started as a tech speaker in 2020. I haven’t done a lot of tech speaking...
2022-11-30 (first published: 2022-11-29)
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This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by my dear friend Kevin Kline (b | t) . Kevin’s call is for us to ‘Tell us the story of how attending an IT conference or...
2022-08-26 (first published: 2022-08-09)
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This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Deborah Melkin(b|t), and she has an interesting topic. She wants us to write a rant on a scenario we encountered at a...
2022-07-25 (first published: 2022-07-12)
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I received a great collection of blog posts in response to my T-SQL Tuesday 151 – asking people to write on T-SQL Coding Standards. Rob Farley (t|b) is of...
2022-07-04 (first published: 2022-06-17)
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T-SQL Tuesday is the blog party started by Adam Machanic (b|t) over a decade ago and is now maintained by Steve Jones (b|t) on tsqltuesday.com. On the first Tuesday of...
2022-06-06
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I am glad to be contributing to the 150th blog party started by Adam Machanic and has helped so many get our blogs going. This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is...
2022-05-30 (first published: 2022-05-10)
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This months’ T-SQL Tuesday blog party is hosted by Rie Merrit (t|b) as part of Azure Community Group lead. Her call is to pick one or two things that...
2022-03-18 (first published: 2022-03-08)
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2021 was a strange year…mid way through a pandemic, enormously depressing on many fronts to me..and yet, it bought with it some unexpected joys. I never imagined, in the...
2022-02-09
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In the last post I wrote about what ScriptDOM is and why it is useful. From this post, I will explain how it can be put to use. What...
2022-01-28 (first published: 2022-01-27)
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I’ve been meaning to get a series of blog posts started on this topic. A twitter conversation from yesterday finally pushed me to it. Last year, I was tasked...
2022-02-04 (first published: 2022-01-24)
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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...
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
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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