Supporting Wikipedia & Other Organizations
I just sent Wikipedia five bucks. As someone who uses Wikipedia and finds it useful, I’m willing to donate in...
2014-01-01 (first published: 2013-12-26)
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SQLAndy
SQL Server Pro Community Choice Awards
I’m a bit late posting this, but it’s worth a couple minutes to check out the Community Choice awards, might...
2013-12-23
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Google IQ Test
Friday (Dec 20, 2013) the Google Doodle was a crossword puzzle. I was curious so I clicked and yes, it...
2013-12-23
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NFC Tags-Fun, And Maybe Useful at SQLSaturday
Last week I had one of those days when I read something and then heard someone talking about the same...
2013-12-16
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First Week As The DBA Whitepaper Published
For those that attended the webcast I did last week for Idera the companion whitepaper is now available for download....
2013-12-11
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Learn To Code
Today I ran through the first tutorial at Code.org. It has 20 very short lessons that use Angry Birds and...
2013-12-11
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Webcast Today: Surviving The First Week As The New DBA
Today at 3 pm EST I’m presenting Surviving The First Week As The New DBA. Some of the topics I’m...
2013-12-05
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Review: The Abilene Paradox
The Abilene Paradox by Jerry Harvey is not a new book, written in 1988. It’s part of some reading I’m...
2013-11-27
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The World Needs More A/B Testing
Have you ever been told that it’s ok to fail? Did it ever feel like it was really ok to...
2013-11-26
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Review: The Year Without Pants
The Year Without Pants by Scott Berkun is about a former manager/now speaker and writer going to work for WordPress...
2013-11-26
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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
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