Visiting Atlantis
This week I got to visit Atlantis. Not the mythical island, but rather the ship, the Space Shuttle Atlantis at...
2013-06-26
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SQLAndy
PASS Nominating Committee for 2013 Elections Announced
I was pleased to see the email this morning announcing that community volunteers Erin Stellato, Ryan Adams, and Tamera Clark...
2013-06-26
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Kindle vs Library
Since I bought a Nexus 7 (two of them, I broke the first one) I’ve been interested to see if...
2013-06-17
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Is $160 Per Day a Lot?
Recently I was in a small coffee/sandwich shop for early morning coffee and while waiting watched one of the employees...
2013-06-17
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Interesting Approach-One Time Tools
Recently I ordered a Paolini Pocket Rule from Woodpecker. It is one of a series of OneTime Tools they’ve produced...
2013-06-17
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Vacation Notes
First stop was Philadelphia, mostly because we scheduled our vacation to coincide with SQLSaturday #200, but also because we had...
2013-06-11
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Presenting at SQLSaturday #231 in Cocoa Beach
I’ll be attending the very first SQLSaturday held in Cocoa Beach on July 27, 2013, and doing a brand new...
2013-06-07
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Train Rides and A Silly Train Story
This past week I took my kids on a train ride from Philadelphia to Washington DC. It was their first...
2013-06-07
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Notes from SQLSaturday #200
My first time in Philadelphia (and in Malvern, the actual event location). I drove up Friday night for the speaker...
2013-06-07
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Back to Plan A
At the end of April I posted a bit on my change in plans and what I thought I’d be...
2013-05-28
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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