Interest In SQL Server Seems To Be Declining?
Amusing myself for a minute at Google Trends. Anyone missing 2005?
2014-02-17 (first published: 2014-02-12)
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SQLAndy
Review: Tell Me How I’m Doing
I found Tell Me How I’m Doing by Richard L. Williams at the local library. It’s a book about giving...
2014-02-11
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Building an SSMS Add-In Using Redgate Ecosystem
On Friday I was finally able to spend a couple hours looking at the Redgate Ecosystem, which is essentially a...
2014-02-10
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Presenting at Code Camp Orlando
I’ll be at Code Camp Orlando on March 22, 2014 doing a presentation on storing credit cards in SQL Server...
2014-02-05
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Presenting at SQLSaturday Tampa
The schedule just went up, I’ll be presenting PCI for the SQL DBA this year. Looking forward to visiting Tampa...
2014-02-05
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Renaming The Reporting Services TempDB Database
Strange that I’ve never had/wanted to do this before, helping someone do it today and renaming it causes everything to...
2014-02-03
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See Consolidated Data About SQLSaturday (Events, Sponsors, And Speakers)
Yesterday Kendal Van Dyke posted a file to Skydrive with consolidated information from all the events published so far. He...
2014-01-31
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Famous Move Quotes–Visualized
Ran across this poster of movie quotes – $20 will get you a copy. Why might you be interested? The visualizations...
2014-01-31
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Security, Compliance, and SQL Server – Recording Now Available
If you missed it live you get a second chance! http://www.mssqltips.com/sql-server-video/284/security-compliance-and-sql-server-video/. Had about 300 attend and more questions than we...
2014-01-30
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Uninstalling SSMS on Server Breaks SQL Powershell
I reviewed my daily report and saw that some jobs failed on six instances overnight, the common factor being that...
2014-01-30
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Blogs
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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
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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