The Question – Why?
The question I get asked a lot by other data professionals at conferences, events, speaking engagements, family, friends, etc. is...
2014-10-14 (first published: 2014-10-06)
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The SQL Professor
C-R-U-D The Basics
C-R-U-D The Basics
What is CRUD? Well, there are a lot of things I can think of when I use the...
2014-10-09 (first published: 2014-10-01)
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Passwords – A T-SQL Tuesday Topic
Being engrossed with the daily tasks at hand I completely missed this month’s T-SQL Tuesday is being brought to you...
2014-09-18
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SQL Prompt 6.4 – Get It
This guy looks just like me a few weeks ago only one difference…..he has hair!!! Okay seriously though, I felt...
2014-09-18
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What I Wish I Had Known Sooner…as a DBA
Yesterday I took a minute and to review some posts by some Data Professionals and in doing so I came...
2014-08-28
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ISPACs – Got To Love Em
Being a DBA and working with various teams, I have become accustomed to deploying SSIS packages. I’ll even go back...
2014-08-20
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And Just Like That….Three Years
Time is a constant. Anything and everything requires time it seems, and with that said I received a reminder today...
2014-08-18
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T-SQL Tuesday #57 – SQL Family and Community
Maybe it is just me, but these monthly block parties seem to be coming around quicker and quicker as time...
2014-08-12
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SQL Prompt – The Power Within
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Come a little closer; no seriously come on over just a little closer as I don’t want...
2014-07-15
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T-SQL Tuesday #56 – Assumptions
Question: “What time is it?”
Answer: “T-SQL Tuesday time”
Question: “What time?”
Answer: “T-SQL Tuesday time”
“I can’t hear you?!?!?!”
That’s right; it’s that time...
2014-07-09
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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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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