I’m Not Presenting at PASS Summit 2013
Last week I got the news that none of the four sessions I submitted for this year were accepted. Disappointing...
2013-05-22
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SQLAndy
Lost Phone, Ring,Glasses,Etc, At the Office
If you work at a company with more than a 100 or so employees you probably get an email every...
2013-05-16
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From Google Reader to Feedly
I shifted to Reader about a year ago mainly for the ability to access my feeds on multiple devices. I’ll...
2013-05-16
635 reads
Got Any Grapes?
This past weekend we took a mini vacation, along the way my daughter decided to play this song, which is...
2013-05-14
600 reads
Drafting Email You’ll Never Send-Probably
It’s not uncommon to get frustrated about something at work and send out an email blasting whatever person or group...
2013-05-10
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Books On The Desk
I read quite a bit and it’s rare that I don’t have a book or magazine with me in case...
2013-05-07
677 reads
A SQL Shirt Style For Any Occasion
Recently at work we had a “Hawaiian Shirt Day”, a nice change from the usual business casual. I picked one...
2013-05-06
582 reads
Looking Forward
For the past couple months I’ve been looking forward to a 5 week break, a chance to think about what...
2013-04-30
1,406 reads
Looking Back-Part 2
As I re-read the original Looking Back post I realized I didn’t include anything about the fear part – stepping away...
2013-04-29
1,254 reads
Assorted Links for April 27, 2013
Spend a few minutes reviewing 20 Critical Security Controls. Very interesting stuff. For example, #1 refers to having and maintaining...
2013-04-27
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
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