My Surprise MVP Party
Two Fridays ago, Sean and I sat down for our weekly DBAs@Midnight webshow* as usual. Unusually, we were expecting an out-of-town...
2011-01-24
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SQL Awesomesauce
RTFM365, Week 7
[Commence whine-a-thon, thinly veiled as an introductory paragraph to a blog.]
As I knew it would, it is getting VERY difficult...
2011-01-24
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Blog Sins
Thoughts come together, and the hybridization of your thoughts give rise to new ideas. Here are the thoughts:
I have this...
2011-01-21
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Who do you want to see at SQLRally and 24HOP?
I dig democracy: I like all this voting for SQL sessions at events.
Voting is open this week, Jan17 – 23, for...
2011-01-19
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Un-SQL Friday: Your Tech Giants
This started as just a regular blog…but it’s sparked such a big conversation online, I’ve decided to make it an...
2011-01-19
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T-SQL Tuesday #014 Roundup
Wow…the inagural 2011 T-SQL Tuesday was so big, it lasted a week! A few quick observations, then on to the...
2011-01-18
1,271 reads
RTFM365, Week 6
Just a quick note this week….things are quite crazy right now, and I’m struggling to keep reading on my days...
2011-01-18
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T-SQL Tuesday: Resolutions
In my invitation to T-SQL Tuesday #014, I picked the topic “Resolutions”, clearly to play on the new year. The...
2011-01-11
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Top 10 SQL #Awesomesauce for 2010
Here at MidnightDBA.com, we’re all about you! And us! It’s just us, and you. Which is why I’ve put together...
2011-01-10
801 reads
RTFM365, Week 5
I’m trying to plan out this week better, and come at the RTFM readings with a sense of direction an...
2011-01-07
455 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
I'm thinking about submitting some articles
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
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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