Notes From the September 16, 2015 Jacksonville SQL User Group Meeting
Forgot to post the next day and now missing details! Notes:
Rained the entire drive up (and back)Not a bad drive...
2015-09-30
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Thoughts on the 2015 PASS Election
We had a decent election this year. Thanks to all four candidates – Argenis Fernandez, Jen Stirrup, Ryan Adams, and Tim...
2015-09-25
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SSC Editorial: The Counter Offer – Part 1/Part 2
Counter offers (and the related discussions) are an emotional topic. The comments on two of my editorials for SQLServerCentral (The...
2015-09-23
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Recommendations, Endorsements, and More on the 2015 PASS Election
We have four good candidates this year, of which two are incumbents. I was asked by Argenis and Tim to...
2015-09-17
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Improving Networking at PASS Events–Part 1
This week I’m spending some drive time thinking about how we might improve networking at SQLSaturday and that led to...
2015-09-22 (first published: 2015-09-10)
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An Evening of Networking at the 2015 PASS Summit on October 26, 2015 (Monday)
Going to be in Seattle on Monday night (Oct 26th) and want to see old friends and make some new...
2015-09-02
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SSC Editorial: The Problem Solver
The Problem Solver. Ever scoffed at personality types? Surely none of us are just one thing, but often we are...
2015-08-31
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Does SQLSaturday Increase Chapter Attendance?
One of the big goals for SQLSaturday was for it to be a membership drive. It’s worked hugely well in...
2015-08-27
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SSC Editorial: Annual Security Compliance Training
Compliance training, never a fun topic and I think that is too bad. A combination of companies checking the box,...
2015-08-26
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SQLSaturday & The Speaker Wait List
When a new SQLSaturday event is launched an email is sent to all the speakers who have opted in to...
2015-08-25
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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