An Artist I’m Not!
One of the gifts my Mom gave my children was a ‘Painting Rocks’ kit. Great marketing, six medium sized rocks,...
2011-01-07
556 reads
SQLAndy
Goals for 2011
Last week I wrote about my goals for last year and some frustration at having to make some trade offs...
2011-01-06
572 reads
Good People Know Good People
I can’t remember where I heard this recently, but it’s been stuck in my head as one of those bits...
2011-01-05
617 reads
Schedule Posted for SQLSaturday #62 in Tampa
The schedule is posted for SQLSaturday #62 coming to Tampa on January 15, 2011. I don’t have a presentation on...
2011-01-04
557 reads
Looking Back at 2010
I’m writing this the day before Xmas, trying to finish up a bunch of odd tasks before the holiday weekend...
2010-12-30
1,448 reads
Book Review: Bury My Heart at Conference Room B
Bury My Heart at Conference Room B: The Unbeatable Impact of Truly Committed Managers by Stan Slap ($15 @ Amazon) is...
2010-12-29
734 reads
Meet a New Blogger: Malathi Mahadevan
My friend Malathi (Mala) Mahadevan has chaired the Louisville PASS Chapter for the past couple years, and will be heading...
2010-12-27
977 reads
Updated SQLRally Flyer
We’ve updated the original flyer to the new and improved model that has the prices. The image below is a...
2010-12-23
717 reads
Lunch Story #3–No Free Sandwiches
This time the plan was to go to Arby’s because it was close and my friend Rob had coupons for...
2010-12-23
557 reads
Book Plug: Say Goodbye
I read a lot, and often marvel at the effort that goes into writing them, and I think I get...
2010-12-22
615 reads
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...
Forums
would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
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I'm thinking about submitting some articles
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Not Just an Upgrade
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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