Your Recovery Time
Disaster recovery is one of those situations that we plan for and hope we never experience. Are you prepared?
2019-01-25
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Editorial
Fast Enough
The RDBMS works great for many situations, but is it ever fast enough to meet all your needs?
2019-01-24
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Faster Cloud Warehouses
Azure SQL Data Warehouse gets some improvements, and Steve has a few comments.
2019-01-23
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2019-01-22
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Versatile or Jack of all trades
Do you consider multi-skills useful; or just one with mastery in it?
2019-01-21
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2019-01-21
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The Justification Database
Having a good process for managing security is important, but how many of us enforce that?
2023-10-25 (first published: 2019-01-18)
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2019-01-17
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2019-01-16
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Measuring Effectiveness
Being effective is important to Steve. Today he talks about the things you might consider when trying to determine if your group is being effective.
2019-01-15
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
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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