SQLRally Call for Speakers Closes December 15, 2010
The call for speakers is open through December 15, 2010, and I hope many of you will take the chance...
2010-12-07
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SQLAndy
Not Enough Time
I’ve been thinking about my goals for 2010, ones that I’ve set and adjusted a couple times, and thinking more...
2010-12-07
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IT Education Part 1
Like many in IT I’m self taught, starting with DOS and batch files, then proceeding through QuickBasic, Visual Basic in...
2010-12-06
619 reads
Book Review: Alas, Babylon
I just re-read Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank ($10 @ Amazon). It’s a bit of a touchstone for me. It was...
2010-12-03
613 reads
LiveWriter 2011
I recently upgraded to LiveWriter 2011 while upgrading to the final version of LiveMesh. After the upgrade I noted the...
2010-12-01
339 reads
Book Review: Chasing Daylight
I read Chasing Daylight by Eugene O’Kelly after a reference to it in an audio book. It’s the story of...
2010-11-30
1,505 reads
PASS Update #48
It’s the end of November and this will probably be my last update on PASS for the year as things...
2010-11-29
1,562 reads
TechEd 2011
TechEd will be in Atlanta next year, May 16-19, 2011 at the Georgia World Conference Center. I went this year...
2010-11-29
1,533 reads
Android Adventures–Part 2
I’ve been living with my Droid X phone for a couple weeks now. It’s definitely a big change from my...
2010-11-29
1,484 reads
Don’t Abuse the Use Statement
I ran across this article in Visual Studio Magazine that tracks the source of a missing object to an embedded...
2010-11-19
556 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
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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