Breaking Things Apart
Microsoft is unbundling their new hypervisor from Windows. Could this happen with SQL Server?
2007-12-05
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Editorial
Unprotected Queries
There are over half a million database servers out on the Internet without protection. How can this happen?
2012-11-06 (first published: 2007-12-04)
482 reads
Working Your 40
Will the 40 hour work week change anytime soon? A survey seems to think so, and Steve Jones (somewhat) agrees.
2012-11-05 (first published: 2007-12-03)
324 reads
The Weekly Update for Dec 2, 2007
A few notes and comments on the database news from the previous week.
2007-12-03
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A Welcome Delay
An open letter to Microsoft from the CEO of Mandriva Linux might not have been the best idea.
2017-03-04 (first published: 2007-11-30)
367 reads
The 5 Stages of Volunteering
Volunteers are important to ensuring the success of so many organizations. IT-based organizations, such as user groups, are no different. Steve Jones leads you through a few of the stages of being a volunteer and hopes more of you will participate in your local area.
2007-11-29
63 reads
2007-11-28
88 reads
Savvy Managers
Data quality is everyone's business and it takes some work. Steve Jones talks about some hints for you and your manager to make things better in your data systems.
2012-11-07 (first published: 2007-11-27)
168 reads
Keeping Your Job
A few thoughts from Steve Jones on how you can help increase your own job security in IT.
2012-10-30 (first published: 2007-11-26)
376 reads
2007-11-23
40 reads
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