Changes to PASS Voting Eligibility
There was a blurb in the Connector today about an eligibility change for voting. The “change” is a requirement to...
2014-01-08
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SQLAndy
Reporting Services Parameter Assumptions
Ran into a new-to-me quirk this week while putting together a couple of reports. I have a summary report (essentially...
2014-01-08
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Reminder: Orlando Code Camp on March 22, 2014
Ninth annual!
Yes, Orlando Code Camp #9 this year, being held at Seminole State College on March 22, 2014. I’ve submitted...
2014-01-07
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Picking The Next Cell Phone
Cell phones are incredibly useful tools. Even a bad one is better than not having one, but a bad phone...
2014-01-07
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Looking Back At the Droid Razr Maxx
It’s been 18 or 19 months since I upgraded from the Droid X to the Maxx. The X was a...
2014-01-06
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South Alabama Day of .Net
Just received an email from my friend Ryan Duclos announcing the South Alabama Day of .Net in Mobile, Alabama, on...
2014-01-06
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Throwing Spaghetti At The Wall Isn’t The Worst Plan
I get a lot of email about job opportunities, almost none of which interest me enough to call back about...
2014-01-03
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Some Thoughts on the Target Breach
Possibly as many as forty million credit cards used at Target were compromised. A staggering breach and a cautionary tale...
2014-01-02
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Welcome To 2014
A quiet and rainy day here in Orlando today. Not my favorite weather, but good for thinking, mostly about what...
2014-01-02
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Review of Change to PASS Bylaws
As required, the Board has posted proposed changes to the bylaws for review by the members. The changes are fairly...
2013-12-26
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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
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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