Speaking at SQLSaturday #32 in Tampa on January 23, 1010
I’ll be heading to Tampa the afternoon of the 22nd for the speaker party, and then presenting Social and Not...
2010-01-07
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SQLAndy
Picking a Blog Platform
For the past couple years I’ve been using Community Server for blogging, only because that’s the platform that’s been part...
2010-01-06
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PASS Summit – Where to Hold it in 2011
Bill Graziano posted some thoughts about the merits of East Coast vs West Coast placement of the Summit. He did...
2010-01-05
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New Blog Feed URL
Not easy to find yet on the new site, you can find it at http://www.sqlandy.com/feed/.
2010-01-05
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Goals for 2010
Posting goals online is great as long as you meet your goals, can be something less than great if you...
2010-01-05
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Almost Back from Vacation
I’ve been ‘on vacation’ for two weeks and it’s been nice to relax. I wasn’t able to unplug entirely, but...
2010-01-04
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This Blog is Moving!
I’ve moved my blog to www.sqlandy.com and the first post of 2010 is up. It’s still very much a work...
2010-01-02
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Moving My Blog and Rebranding Too
I started blogging about 2-1/2 years ago on SQLServerCentral.com and at the time it was the logical place for hosting....
2010-01-01
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Wrapping Up Blogging for 2009
I think I’ve met my goal of blogging every day. I’m at almost 800 posts now over the past 2.5...
2009-12-30
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Writing Proposals for Training
I had a student recently who said that to get any type of training she had to write a proposal...
2009-12-29
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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