Appreciating New Perspectives
Today Steve Jones talks about understanding and having empathy for other points of view.
2017-08-31
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Editorial
Database Development Made Easy?
Today Steve Jones has a few thoughts on the complexity and cumbersome nature of database development.
2017-08-30
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Who's Responsible?
If mistakes are made, employees can be held financially responsible by some companies. Do we need to worry about this in our industry?
2023-06-21 (first published: 2017-08-29)
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2017-08-28
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Graphing Performance
Are graph databases worth using? Steve Jones looks at a report that questions their value at this time.
2017-08-28
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The Career Bucket List
Steve Jones asks you to look forward in your career, perhaps setting goals that move you forward.
2017-08-25
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2017-08-24
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2017-08-23
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Jumping Ahead
There are times when you look back and times when you look forward in your career. Sometimes, however, we might try to push forward too fast.
2017-08-22
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Responsibility to Learn
“I would educate myself, and that I would never stop educating myself. It was my responsibility to keep learning.” Who said that? Albert Einstein? Da Vinci? Stephen Hawking? None of the above. That statement came from the Demon of the rock band KISS, Gene Simmons. If a rock & roll legend knows that it’s on […]
2017-08-21
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Blogs
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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