March Madness – SQL Server style
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It seems that March is another great month for getting your geek on without having to leave the...
2012-03-08
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Bodypaint not required
It seems that March is another great month for getting your geek on without having to leave the...
2012-03-08
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It’s been a couple of weeks since my last post, but I swear I have a good excuse. I’ve been...
2012-03-05
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Another key component of any good maintenance plan is updating statistics. Statistics are what help the SQL Server optimizer choose...
2012-02-27 (first published: 2012-02-21)
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In response to my last post, I got a very interesting comment from Philip:
“I would love to see a way...
2012-02-13 (first published: 2012-02-09)
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As good little DBAs, we should be gathering baseline statistics for our database servers. These stats can give us insight...
2012-02-13
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4 out of 5 DBAs agree
I’ve covered creating my backup directories and the actual backup of the database(s). The last...
2012-02-08 (first published: 2012-02-06)
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Last time I dealt with the creation of subdirectories, in one or more root locations, to house my database backups....
2012-01-30
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Remember kids...
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a big proponent of automating routine tasks. If I have to do...
2012-01-26 (first published: 2012-01-23)
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Last week’s resolutions post reminded me that it’s time for another status check on the goals I set for myself...
2012-01-17
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Welcome to the first TSQL Tuesday of 2012! This month’s soiree is being hosted by Dave Howard (blog | twitter) and...
2012-01-10
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By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
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...
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
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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