Next oPASS Meeting is July 23, 2015 with David Crook
The next OPASS meeting is July 23, 2015, featuring David Crook from Microsoft doing a presentation on predicting home value...
2015-07-16
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SQLAndy
The End of SQLRally
PASS announced yesterday the end of the SQLRally brand. It was disappointing news for an idea that started with such...
2015-07-14
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Worth Reading: Microsoft IT migrates mailboxes to Office 365 Exchange Online
Just read Microsoft IT migrates mailboxes to Office 365 Exchange Online, a good overview of their migration from Exchange. Lots of...
2015-07-14
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Be a PASS NomCom Candidate!
Today is the last day to submit your name as a candidate for the NomCom. If you’re a PASS member...
2015-07-14
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Thoughts on the PASS BAC
I recently read PASS and Business Analytics: A Winning Combination on the PASS blog and it reminded me that I’ve been...
2015-07-08
580 reads
Moving SQLAndy to Project Nami
I’ve been hosting this blog on Azure for a while, running WordPress on top of MySQL. Works fine, gives me...
2015-07-02
523 reads
Reporting Services Subscriptions in “Pending” Status
Ran into this issue today. A subscription that had been working failed. Looking at it in the RS portal it...
2015-07-01
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SSC Editorial: Exit Lines & Writing Editorials
I’m trying to evolve a little in the topics I pick and how I write them to push the boundaries...
2015-06-29
855 reads
Changes to the 2015 PASS Board Elections
PASS just posted Changes to the 2015 PASS Board Elections based on feedback from the 2014 NomCom. I was part of that...
2015-06-25
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SSC Editorial: Culture Clashes and Arrogance
I’m a little late posting this, Culture Clashes and Arrogance was featured on June 17, 2015. One of my favorites...
2015-06-25
501 reads
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