Notes from the January 2012 oPASS Meeting
It’s been quite a while – where did the time go? – since I had done a presentation for oPASS, so when...
2012-01-23
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SQLAndy
PASS: Time to Change the By-Laws
Yesterday Bill Graziano announced the appointment of two Directors (Kendal Van Dyke and James Rowland-Jones) to fill vacancies on the...
2012-01-14
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Presenting at OPASS on January 10, 2012
I’m stepping out of blogging-break mode for a few minutes to share that I’ll be presenting Building Your Professional Development...
2012-01-04
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PASS Election Results
The 2011 Election results were just posted, congratulations to Adam Jorgensen, Denise McInerney, and Rob Farley for taking the top...
2011-12-28
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Wrapping Up 2011 and a Blog Break
I’m writing this on December 17th, thinking back on 2011, and it has been a good year. Not always simple...
2011-12-28
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PASS Update #69 (The Wrap Up)
Next week marks the end of my third and final year serving on the PASS Board of Directors. I’ve struggled...
2011-12-27
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PASS Summit 2011 Eval Results
My presentation on Professional Development Plans ended up being ranked 47th out of 190, with an overall score of 4.63....
2011-12-22
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Explaining SQLSaturday
I wrote a while back about my coffee cup from SQLSaturday #100. I took it to work (where I usually...
2011-12-21
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SQLSaturday Goes International
Looking at 2011 and the planned events so far for 2012 it’s easy to see that SQLSaturday is starting to...
2011-12-20
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Read About SQLSatuday #100 & See the Coffee Cup Too!
Here’s a great post from Karla Landrum about her trip (with husband Rodney) to Brazil for the milestone making #100....
2011-12-19
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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...
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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