Friend of Redgate 2020
Last week I was excited to receive an email from Redgate notifying me that I have been renewed for another year as a Friend of Redgate. Our shop has...
2020-02-18
19 reads
The SQL Professor
Why I’m Running For The PASS Board – Again
Hello, it’s amazing to me how fast the past couple of years have gone by as I’ve served on the PASS Board. It has been a journey that has...
2019-11-02
17 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #119 – Changing Your Mind
This month Alex Yates (B|T) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday which is a monthly blog party started by Adam Machanic (B|T) and co-ordinated by Steve Jones (B|T) The challenge that...
2019-10-08
80 reads
Friend of Redgate 2019
The crew at Redgate has deemed me worthy enough to be in their Friend of Redgate program for another year....
2019-02-12
103 reads
SQL Saturday Louisville–Bout That Time
SQL Saturday Louisville is less than a week away!! A lot of hard work has gone into putting on this...
2018-07-16
172 reads
180 – Is It Time For A Turnaround?
What needs to change? The challenge to explore is are there things in your current day to day that needs...
2018-04-26
511 reads
Interview With Matt Gordon
I’ve been wanting to share a little bit about Matt’s story for a while now and this past week I...
2018-03-29
888 reads
What The Doctor Ordered
I recently went to our local pharmacy to pick up some prescriptions. There was one for my boy and one...
2017-12-19
328 reads
Eliminating Hassles
It is easy for me to fall into the trap of the “who” versus the “what”. If we are not...
2017-11-30 (first published: 2017-11-20)
1,291 reads
TSQL Tuesday #96: Folks Who Have Made a Difference
I was intrigued by this month’s T-SQL Tuesday topic presented by Ewald Cress (b|t) “Folks Who Have Made a Difference”....
2017-11-14
333 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
Deployment Pipelines in Fabric – What Are They?
By HeyMo0sh
In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers