Windows Azure Views
It’s kind of fun to see Azure development artifacts on display. I’ve posted about them before, a couple of times....
2013-11-19
875 reads
Grant Fritchey
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For the Aspiring DBA
Getting started as a data professional is an incredibly daunting task. If you’re not concerned that you’re going to mess...
2013-11-18 (first published: 2013-11-11)
1,483 reads
Cargo Cult Data Professionals
Ever since David Moutray introduced me to the concept of cargo cult programming, it’s been running round and round in...
2013-11-12
978 reads
More Azure Goodies
Microsoft keeps sneaking little things under the door for Windows Azure SQL Database. This time it’s a couple of new...
2013-11-12 (first published: 2013-11-05)
1,781 reads
Speaker of the Month, November 2013
Yeah, I’m a couple of days late. Tough. My blog. My rules.
Speaking of rules. Speaker of the Month is chosen...
2013-11-04
652 reads
Query Tuning in Dallas
Let’s have some fun.
This Friday, November 1, 2013, I’m putting on an all day seminar on query tuning. It’s set...
2013-10-29
675 reads
Monitoring Structure Changes
Most everyone I know works with environments that are carefully controlled and structured. All changes go through rigorous testing and...
2013-10-22 (first published: 2013-10-15)
2,288 reads
SQL in the City, US Tour 2013, Recap
Red Gate visited three cities this year with our SQL in the City event; Pasadena, Atlanta and Charlotte. I just...
2013-10-22
837 reads
Do Be a Gatekeeper
I read this fascinating blog post called “Don’t Be a Gatekeeper” by Julie Zhuo. Please read that first.
It really resonated...
2013-10-18 (first published: 2013-10-09)
2,721 reads
PASS Summit 2013 Day 2 Key Note
KILT DAY!
Today we have to eat our vegetables and then get lots and lots of sweet desert.
Or.
Today we hear about...
2013-10-17
886 reads
Blogs
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...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
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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