Another Lunch Story
Lately I’ve been having some unusual lunches, starting with the bbq fiasco from last week. For this one I have...
2010-12-20
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SQLAndy
Unusual BBQ
Recently some friends invited me to try a BBQ place that they enjoyed, so I went along hoping for the...
2010-12-17
594 reads
The Bar Where Everyone Queries Your Name?
Sent by a friend (yes, it’s a mild fake), but still, shouldn’t someone open a SQL bar or coffee place?
2010-12-17
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Notes from the December 2010 OPASS Meeting
Our December meeting was a time for a lot of changes:
New location, the Hampton Inn in Lake Mary. It’s further...
2010-12-16
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Email Pruning
Email consumes a pretty significant chunk for me. Email for my day job, email for my blog, email from friend...
2010-12-15
873 reads
Soft Skills Matter More Than You Think
Over my career I’ve seen interviews fall into three categories:
The technical part. Questions on trace flags, wait states, backups, etc,...
2010-12-14
612 reads
More Networking Thoughts
I’ve happened to have a few networking events happen recently that I thought I’d share, all part of trying to...
2010-12-13
648 reads
IT Education Part 2
For those thinking about an IT career the options are bewildering, and I think the education establishment doesn’t do a...
2010-12-10
697 reads
Book Review: The Way We Work Isn’t Working
The Way We Work Isn’t Working by Tony Schwartz ($19 @ Amazon) is a holistic approach to work and a work...
2010-12-09
600 reads
SQLSaturday #62–Too Many Speakers
I received the email this week that I won’t be getting a place on the schedule, nor will the other...
2010-12-08
785 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?
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
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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