SQLSaturday Orlando 2016 Call for Speakers Closes July 17, 2016
We’ve advanced the closing date for the SQLSaturday Orlando call for speakers to July 17. That’s to give us time...
2016-06-22
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SQLAndy
The PASS Speaker Agreement
I hope when you’ve read all of this post that you’ll think that I’ve added to the discussion and not...
2016-06-24 (first published: 2016-06-20)
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MS Exams Increasing In Price
Just glanced through the MCP newsletter and see that the price of the exams (or at least the one I...
2016-06-14 (first published: 2016-06-09)
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The Road to SQLSaturday Orlando – 2016
This year I’ll blog sporadically on the event, focusing on pain points, discoveries, and new ideas with the occasional progress...
2016-05-23
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Events I Wish PASS Organized
I was talking a bit with a friend at SQLSaturday Jacksonville and realized I needed to write down a thought...
2016-05-09
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Notes From SQLSaturday Jacksonville 2016
Everything ran smooth The site reminds me of Orlando – limited space for sponsors, but offset by the other advantages (free...
2016-05-09
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Strengthsfinder Results
I recently took the Strengthsfinder evaluation and thought I’d save the results here.
2016-04-26
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Upcoming Florida IT Pro Camps
Two IT Pro Camps coming up, register soon!
IT Pro Camp – Jacksonville FL – June 11 at Keiser UniversityIT Pro Camp – Tampa...
2016-05-05 (first published: 2016-04-25)
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How Two PASS Chapters Join Forces to Run One SQLSaturday In Orlando
We’re lucky enough to have two PASS chapters here in Orlando, oPASS and MagicPASS. Both in Orlando, but about 40...
2016-04-21
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A Speaking Sabbatical
Lately I’ve been thinking about taking a break from doing presentations. Not sure what triggered it – maybe just a sense...
2016-04-20
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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...
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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