Speaker Gift for SQLSaturday #49
We’ve tried to move away from shirts as a speaker gift, most speakers have them so we only get them...
2010-10-12
505 reads
SQLAndy
Review: NPR Baseball Driveway Moments
NPR Baseball Driveway Moments ($15 @ Amazon) is an audio book I got from the local library to listen to on...
2010-10-12
389 reads
PASS Update #44 (Budget)
I had a question recently about how budgets work at PASS, and I think that’s something worth sharing, so I’m...
2010-10-11
518 reads
Planning to Fail
Great title for a post, isn’t it? Seems foolish, lazy, or worse to plan for failure, right? Yet, in the...
2010-10-08
313 reads
Literacy & Teaching
I found The Literacy Project at Google after seeing a local op-ed piece about literacy. I love to read, a...
2010-10-07
441 reads
My Favorite Attorney – Chris D’Amico
Not often I do plugs here, but then again, it’s rare that I just get first class service, so read...
2010-10-07
384 reads
A Surprising Result from Ident_Current
If you haven’t used it (and I rarely do myself), Ident_Current (‘tablename’) returns the last identity value generated across all...
2010-10-06
960 reads
Reminder – Deadline for SQLRally Pre-Con Abstracts is October 15th
See my previous post on the topic,or just go directly to the application.The application has full details, but MVP’s, Summit...
2010-10-05
357 reads
SSC Editorial – Great Service
I wrote the editorial about great service after noticing a couple small but interesting customer service experiences during two trips....
2010-10-05
430 reads
SQLRally Event Flyer is Ready
The SQLRally marketing team put this flyer together last week. We’ll be trying to get Chapters and SQLSaturdays to link...
2010-10-04
333 reads
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
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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