T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally my go-to guy for data lakes and BI architecture. I am so tickled to be...
2026-03-10
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you taken? I started my career as a preacher and ended it as a director in...
2026-03-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find new hosts over the last few years to keep this party going and to expand...
2026-03-10
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ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during debugging with a BadRequest error, even though it validates successfully. If you’re wondering, this is...
2026-03-09 (first published: 2026-03-06)
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today on Day 4 I would like to write about the Transformer architecture — the foundation...
2026-03-09 (first published: 2026-03-04)
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now Day 6 is inside of AI , how AI understand us, as computer do not...
2026-03-09 (first published: 2026-03-06)
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7 we would learn about Vectors and Vector Databases. this is a place where AI data...
2026-03-09 (first published: 2026-03-07)
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector databases — all comes together here! What is RAG? all the AI model has predefined...
2026-03-09 (first published: 2026-03-08)
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Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric
Why this comparison feels confusing If you’re a Power BI report author who’s just getting into Microsoft Fabric, you’ve probably asked the same question I hear over and over:...
2026-03-09 (first published: 2026-02-26)
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Flyway Tips: Multiple Projects
One of the nice things about Flyway Desktop is that it helps you manage your database code as a project and see what changes are being built. However, many...
2026-03-09 (first published: 2026-03-04)
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
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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