Adventure Works Sample Database Diagrams
Most of my examples utilize either adhoc type of data samples or one of the versions of AdventureWorks. I do...
2011-02-27
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Brian K. McDonald
Quests Performance Monitor Counters Poster
I just wanted to take a moment to thank Kevin Kline, Brent Ozar, Christian Bolton, Bob Ward, Rod Colledge and...
2011-02-27
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February 2011 JSSUG Meeting Tomorrow
Tomorrow, I will be presenting at the Jacksonville SQL Server Users Group (JSSUG) meeting. Please join me for my talk...
2011-02-16
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Redgate’s Free SQL Search Tool
I have been using this tool for quite a while and just remembered that I haven’t written a blog about...
2011-02-15
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SQL Rally: The Votes Have Been Tallied
First and foremost, I would like to send a sincere thank you to everyone who voted for my Reporting Services...
2011-02-10
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SQL Rally 2011 Voting - Reporting Services Boot Camp
All,
Since SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 came out, I have been working very close within the BIDS environment and every...
2011-01-31
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SQL Saturday Tampa Follow Up
This past weekend, I had a talk on SQL Server Reporting Services down in Tampa Florida for SQL Saturday 62....
2011-01-21
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My 2010 Year in Review
While in Cincinnati for the first time since September of 2007, I heard on several occasions that I work too...
2011-01-04
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My 2011 Aspirations
Yesterday, I posted a blog about my year in review for 2010. So, I thought that it would be a...
2011-01-04
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Pragmatic Works Seeking Employment Candidates
If you’re anything like me, you enjoy constantly striving to new levels of knowledge. This new level of knowledge brings...
2010-12-18
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Blogs
The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
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Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
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RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
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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