2020-01-24
311 reads
Career Growth
How Do We Prove Expertise?
Today, Grant Fritchey talks about the two paths to expertise for database professionals and why it’s hard to really know if someone is an expert.
2020-01-17
415 reads
Great Writers Get Hired
Steve thinks one of the ways you can stand out with your resume or CV is by writing well and attracting the attention of hiring managers.
2020-01-07
176 reads
2020-01-02
330 reads
The Best DBA Gifts
Today Steve asks if there is anything you'd want as a gift that would make your job better.
2019-12-27
291 reads
Learn to Change
This week Grant talks about the need for change and growth to adapt to the changing world.
2019-12-21
167 reads
The Evolving DBA
Steve thinks the DBA job is evolving and we will always need people to manage data.
2024-05-17 (first published: 2019-12-16)
525 reads
Finding Your Own Career
Learning to find the career that's important to you can be a challenge. Today Steve has some advice.
2023-05-15 (first published: 2019-12-11)
379 reads
What's a forgivable mistake?
Today Steve wonders if your company is understanding of your human frailty.
2019-12-06
263 reads
It's More Than What You Know
I'm a firm believer in keeping your tech skills up to date, as well as your social skills, What better way than attending or presenting at a conference or group meeting. The reason to attend an event I'm very fortunate that my company allows me training days and time for personal development, covering all expenses […]
2019-12-03
1,956 reads
Blogs
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...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
Forums
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Restoring On Top I
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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