Bananas For SQLSaturday
I was catching up on reading today and saw that Instructables had a how-to on “tattooing” a banana, also called...
2013-01-28
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SQLAndy
Windows 8 In 25 Minutes
Here’s a quick plug for The Missing Windows 8 Instructional Video. I watched it and learned quite a few things,...
2013-01-27
739 reads
Notes From The January 2012 OPASS Meeting
OPASS meetings are held at Logans Roadhouse in Sanford now, I think the fourth location over the past couple years,...
2013-01-21
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Trying the Nest Thermostat
I’ve had the Nest Thermostat on my wish list for a while. It has looked like an interesting bit of...
2013-01-06
998 reads
Give the Gift of Feedback
I bet if you think about it there are lots of times when people ask what you think about a...
2013-01-05
856 reads
Wrapping Up 2012
Looking back at 2012 I feel like I’ve written less than I planned to, and in some ways done less...
2012-12-31
1,463 reads
Phones, Tablets, and Even Windows 8
Last year I purchased two Kindle Fires for the family to use. The UI could be just a little bit/slow...
2012-12-31
1,524 reads
How About a PASS Holiday Ornament?
One of the simpler pleasures in life is having an idea and putting it up for discussion. Not all ideas...
2012-12-23
902 reads
What Is Your Mindset?
Steve Jones sent me a link to this post about Intelligence vs Effort months ago, since then I’ve looked at...
2012-12-22
787 reads
Tracking End of Support/Life Software
I wanted to save this link to the Microsoft Support Lifecycle page and thought I’d share as well. It’s a...
2012-12-22
1,175 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?
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