Podcast Interview: Is the On-Premises Data Warehouse Dead?
Recently I’ve been talking a lot with clients and others about the involvement of cloud architecture in a data warehouse...
2016-06-29 (first published: 2016-06-27)
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Tim Mitchell
What if Your Employer Won’t Support Your Career?
I’ve had a lot of luck in my career, especially as it pertains to my work environment. Although I can’t...
2016-07-01 (first published: 2016-06-23)
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Join Me at PASS Summit 2016
It seems like it was just yesterday that we all said goodbye in Seattle at last year’s PASS Summit, but...
2016-06-22
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Bad Data Can Kill
Bad data can kill. Literally. I’m not talking about the impact of bad data on the bottom line of business,...
2016-05-31 (first published: 2016-05-20)
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ETL Data Lineage
Before I began my technical career over a decade and a half ago, I spent several years working in law...
2016-05-06
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SSIS Training Classes for Summer 2016
If you are looking for affordable, high-quality training on SQL Server Integration Services, you may be interested in one of...
2016-05-05
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Refocus
Three years ago, I left the ranks of full-time employment to become an independent consultant. At the same time, I...
2016-05-04
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ETL Auditing
It happens far too often: Once an ETL process has been tested and executes successfully, there are no further checks...
2016-03-29 (first published: 2016-03-22)
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ETL Logging
If you were to poll data professionals on which tasks they enjoy working on the most, ETL logging would probably...
2016-03-22 (first published: 2016-03-14)
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Polishing The Silverware
A few weeks ago I met a couple of my business partners in a moderately upscale restaurant in the Washington,...
2016-03-08
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
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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