oPASS Meeting Tonight, July 13, 2010
Our regular monthly meeting is tonight featuring David Pless from Microsoft. Here are some notes about his presentation:
This discussion will...
2010-07-13
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Access Annoyance – Bit Columns
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SQLSaturday #49 Pre-Con Announced
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2010-07-09
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PASS Update #36
We had our monthly Board of Directors call on July 8th and as is fairly common, the call went smooth....
2010-07-09
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PASS Summit 2010 Sessions Accepted
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Why Would They Coach Me?
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2010-07-07
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SSC Editorial – Learning From Experts
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2010-07-07
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MS Access Annoyance: Yes, Save the Password, Again
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2010-07-06
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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