Notes on Moderating a 24 Hours of PASS Presentation
Last night (8pm Eastern) I had my first run as a 24HOP moderator and wanted to share some thoughts on...
2013-08-01
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SQLAndy
How Will Your Product Fare Over Time?
I like to look at things that have been in use for a while to see how they hold up....
2013-08-01
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Sometimes It IS The Network
Over the years when a performance problem comes up there is always some speculation that it’s a network issue and...
2013-07-31
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Miscellaneous Reading for July 2013
Must read blog: Sacha Chua. Lots of info on going solo, being productive, sketch noting.Related, if you’re trying to manage...
2013-07-30
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A Long Summer Vacation
Based on a bit of luck/happenstance I’ve been able to stretch my summer vacation to two months. I had planned...
2013-07-29
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Notes from SQLSaturday #231
First time event in Cocoa Beach went really well!
Speaker dinner well attended Friday night at Florida’s SeafoodQuite a few...
2013-07-29
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Encourage Someone You Respect To Run For The PASS Board of Directors
PASS is accepting candidate applications for the 2013 election through August 7th, 2013. Later this year we – the PASS membership...
2013-07-29
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Headed to Cocoa for SQLSaturday #231
I’m leaving mid-morning today to drive to Cocoa with my family for a beach weekend and SQLSaturday #231. I’ll be...
2013-07-26
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The SQLAndy Rules for Storing Credit Card Numbers
I’ll try to write more about these over the next couple months, but I wanted to write down a quick...
2013-07-26
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Blog Images and PNG Compression
I’m not terribly good at putting at least one image in every post. The images I do use are either...
2013-07-25
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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...
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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