The Traveling Data Professional
This week Steve Jones talks about the need to get away and asks if you have plans.
2017-06-23
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Editorial
Backup Plans for Data Loss
Today Steve Jones discusses data loss, always a scary topic for the data professional.
2017-06-22
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Migrating Schema Between Platforms
The decision to change platforms isn't one Steve Jones takes lightly.
2017-06-20
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2017-06-19
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DevOps Can Help
DevOps can help, not just development, but also infrastructure, if you spend time adapting the practices to your environment.
2017-06-19
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Your Job Description
This Friday Steve Jones talks about job posting and descriptions. This is the chance to think about what you do and how you might describe this to your replacement.
2017-06-16
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Securing the Things
The Internet of Things is coming, and bringing lots of data, but security needs to be included as well.
2017-06-15
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2017-06-14
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2017-06-13
68 reads
The Value of Surveys
Phil Factor on the perils of trying to squeeze good insights out of bad surveys.
2017-06-12
65 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
Deployment Pipelines in Fabric – What Are They?
By HeyMo0sh
In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as...
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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