Skills I Used Last Week #2
Back in September I wrote the first version of Skills I Used Last Week, so I thought I’d loop back...
2013-11-25
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SQLAndy
Learn About PCI Today
I’ll be presenting PCI for the SQL DBA today at 1 pm EST for the PASS Security Virtual Chapter. Depending...
2013-11-21
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Notes From SQLSaturday #248
For once the drive from Orlando to Tampa went smoothly, no delays due to accidents or construction or UFO’s, a...
2013-11-11
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Veterans Day 2013
Tonight I’ll be talking again with my children about Veteran’s Day, what it means to me, and what I hope...
2013-11-11
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I’m Attending SQLSaturday #248 in Tampa on Nov 9, 2013
I’ll be heading back to Tampa on November 9, 2013 for the BI Edition of SQLSaturday. I’ll be presenting PCI...
2013-10-30
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Interview With Rick Bolesta of the PASS Board of Directors
Rick Bolesta and Neil Buchwalter of CA technologies are leaving the Board at the end of 2013. CA and Microsoft...
2013-10-30
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Startup Weekend Orlando
Startup Weekend comes to Orlando on Nov 22-24, 2013. I haven’t been (and not sure I will make this one)...
2013-10-29
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Notes from the Oct 23, 2013 oPASS Meeting
I drove up to Sanford after work on Thursday for the oPASS meeting to see Mark Kromer present Big Data...
2013-10-28
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PASS Summit 2014-Networking Dinner & After Hours
Yes, it is early, but I’ve set up the invitation for the fifth annual Monday Night Networking Dinner at the...
2013-10-23
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PASS Summit 2013-The Entire List of Posts
This year I went with numbers instead of “Monday” or “Day 1”. I think I like it better. Easier to...
2013-10-22
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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