The Done Stamp
I’m fond of replying with “done” when a task is complete, no need for anything more elaborate. I’ve been experimenting...
2012-05-25
590 reads
SQLAndy
Building a Presentation Map
This idea came up during a critique of a presentation. I may have re-invented (or re-labeled) something that is already...
2012-05-25
620 reads
It’s OK To Eat Alone
There’s a lot to be said for the philosophy of Never Eat Alone, using meals as a great time to...
2012-05-24
766 reads
Watson Plays Jeopardy
I watched the documentary on Nova about the IBM project to build Watson, a computer that could play Jeopardy. The...
2012-05-23
842 reads
Marketing Ideas for Chapters & SQLSaturday
I’m part of the team putting together SQLSaturday #151 in Orlando this year, and one of the things Kendal Van...
2012-05-23
724 reads
LinkedIn Group Recommendations-Not Quite Useful
I received an email from LinkedIn suggesting that I might find these groups useful:
I’m sure those map back to someone...
2012-05-22
728 reads
The Brain Dump Blog
I was chatting with a friend recently and he said he could never blog the way I do. Which way...
2012-05-18
587 reads
Expectations-The Big Disconnect
One of the things I’ve learned from running events is to set expectations. If you’re going to provide coffee don’t...
2012-05-18
579 reads
Build a Little Free Library
I saw this on the Boing Boing feed yesterday, Little Free Library is a project to try to build 2500...
2012-05-18
843 reads
Go Look at NELL
NELL (Never Ending Language Learning) is a computer system that is trying to learn to read the web. Couple things...
2012-05-17
714 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
India's top water testing laboratory is FARE LABS Pvt. Ltd.
FARE Labs Pvt. Ltd., a water testing facility accredited by the NABL, tests drinking...
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...
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