Protected: Vajrasara – An interview with Lashana Lewis – Part 2
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2019-09-02
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Protected: Vajrasara – an interview with Lashana Lewis – Part 1
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2019-09-02
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Graph Databases – Introduction
I have been looking into this feature and also into understanding graph data in general. I believe introduction of graph database feature in SQL Server has many advantages –...
2019-08-22 (first published: 2019-08-09)
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PASS Summit 2019 – spending the time
The session line up for PASS Summit 2019 was announced today...there are so many good sessions to go to..managing time and what we do with our limited time there...
2019-08-08
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Pathways to Progress
One of the most significant and hardest challenges we face as data professionals (or generally anyone in IT) is how to keep up with learning. Most of us are...
2019-06-05 (first published: 2019-05-17)
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PASS turns 20
Its really hard to believe that its been 20 years since the start of the PASS organization – the volunteer run...
2019-03-19
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WIT Panel for Women’s History Month
I cannot write this without stating some history. I have been part of PASS community since 1999. That is 21...
2019-03-11
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T-SQL Tuesday 109: To influence and to be influenced
The last T-SQL Tuesday of this year is hosted by Jason Brimhall – one of my long-time friends in the SQL...
2018-12-12
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Epic Life Quest – looking back
This will be my last post for the year. In this am going to look back on goals I set...
2018-12-03
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Counting blessings – from Summit V2.0 and beyond
I have been a regular attendee at PASS Summit for 15 years now. This year (2018) marked my 15th year...
2018-11-22
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Blogs
The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out...
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...
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would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
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Not Just an Upgrade
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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