Department of Redundancy Department
Ever wonder all the reasons that we use databases instead of file systems? While we don’t think of it too much anymore, the first reason that databases came into existence was to remove redundancies.
2024-04-12
Ever wonder all the reasons that we use databases instead of file systems? While we don’t think of it too much anymore, the first reason that databases came into existence was to remove redundancies.
2024-04-12
Learn about the SQL Server plan cache and how SQL Server caches query plans, and the potential of plan cache bloat which could impact performance.
2024-04-10
This article shows how you can use two Cosmos DB dataets in Azure Data Factory and join them on a common column.
2024-04-08
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Guy Glantser is an Israeli SQL Server guru with a ton of great presentations on YouTube. I’ve had the privilege of hanging out with him in person a bunch of times over the year, and I’ll always get excited to do it again. He’s not just smart, but he’s friendly and funny as hell.
2024-04-08
In this article, learn how to use the PowerShell DSC to patch your SQL Server instances.
2024-04-05
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In this step-by-step article, learn how to quickly install Python and start writing Python code using Jupyter Notebooks or Visual Studio Code.
2024-04-05
Andy Leonard discusses and demonstrates using Fabric Data Factory to load a CSV file stored in Azure Blob Storage to Azure SQL DB.
2024-04-03
You can create custom statistics distributions, sampling, and histograms in SQL Server 2022 with a new trace flag
2024-04-01
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In this article, we look at how you might go about choosing whether to use SSIS or ADF for your next ETL/ELT project.
2024-04-01
2024-03-29
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By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
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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