Looking Back
In July 2011 I took what felt like a big chance and a detour to lead a large and complex...
2013-04-24
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SQLAndy
Review of The Way
The Way, starring Martin Sheen and directed by Emilio Estevez has been on my want to watch list for a...
2013-04-23
675 reads
SQLSaturday Philadelphia, Cocoa Beach, Orlando, and Charleston
I’ll be attending and presenting at SQLSaturday #200 in Philadelphia in June, then I’ll be attending the first ever SQLSaturday...
2013-04-22
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Assorted Links for April 13, 2013
Consider adding Troy Hunt to your feed listGreat post about the role of staffing firms in your job search and...
2013-04-13
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How Much Power Does Your PC Use?
I can’t say I’ve ever worried too much about how much power my PC uses. I care about battery life...
2013-04-08
767 reads
Failing to Overreach
I’m not sure what put this phrase in my head, though I think in part it came from various posts...
2013-04-03
715 reads
Mo-SQL On A Stick
If you’re involved in the database world it’s hard to have missed the rise of the “no-sql” database products, designed...
2013-04-01
1,021 reads
Office Space–Not The Movie
I’ve worked in a lot of different offices and office layouts over the years. Looking back I’ve been lucky (or...
2013-03-26
987 reads
We Need a Place for SQLFamily News
I’m writing this because I was thinking about a member of the local PASS chapter on the way home last...
2013-03-29 (first published: 2013-03-22)
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Speaking Tomorrow Night at MagicPASS
I’ll be driving south a few miles tomorrow night to talk to the great group at MagicPASS about the basics...
2013-03-19
652 reads
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?
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I'm thinking about submitting some articles
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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