8 Weeks In
I’m about eight weeks into my current project and while I’m certain I don’t know it all, I’m finally at...
2011-09-13
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SQLAndy
Checkers, Chess, and Politics
There are few games that don’t have some kind of strategy, from tic-tac-toe on up. Sometimes we take the time...
2011-09-12
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My Sessions & Schedule at the 2011 PASS Summit–Early View
I was just checking the event calendar and saw that my Building a Professional Development Plan presentation is on Wednesday...
2011-09-12
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PASS Update #64 (Officer Elections)
Recently former PASS President Kevin Kline posted his thoughts on the current slate of officers. I encourage you to read...
2011-09-07
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SQLSaturday #85 Is Just Around the Corner
Coming up on September 24th we’ll be doing our fifthannualSQLSaturday here in Orlando. We’re still at Seminole State College but...
2011-09-06
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Testing Decisions
One of the things I like to do is take some time on decisions that matter to me. That’s a...
2011-09-02
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Parking Places & Editorials
Parking places, that’s the topic of my recent editorial on SSC. A simple topic, but one that most of us...
2011-09-02
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Strong Manager or Weak Manager?
Here’s the link to my editorial on SSC last week. I was pleasantly surprised by the discussion, and was interested...
2011-08-30
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Notes From The 2011 Jacksonville Code Camp
In a departure from my usual plan, this year I drove up to Jacksonville mid-morning in time to have a...
2011-08-29
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PASS Update #63 (How Do We Rate)
A short update today, following up on an email to the Board from incoming VP of Finance Douglas McDowell who...
2011-08-25
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
Forums
would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I'm thinking about submitting some articles
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
Not Just an Upgrade
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Not Just an Upgrade
Question of the Day
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