Nil to Speaker: Improving your PowerPoint skills
As I work on my speaking skills one of my tasks is improve my PowerPoint presentations. To that end I’ve...
2016-09-26
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Kenneth Fisher
Using an ORDER BY in a view
For many years it’s been a best practice to never put an ORDER BY in a view. The idea is...
2016-09-26 (first published: 2016-09-19)
3,651 reads
Emojis in SQL Server
I blame Aaron Bertrand (b/t) and Kevin Kline (b/t). Aaron who posted a great #BackToBasics blog about naming stored procedures...
2016-09-15
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Azure: Creating a BACPAC from an On-Premises SQL Server Database
So to start, what’s a BACPAC?
Per the Azure documentation
When you need to create an archive of an Azure SQL database,...
2016-09-13
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SA Spoof
This is nothing new but it’s still a fun idea.
The problem:
The vendor app we just purchased (and are told we...
2016-09-08
476 reads
Accidental DBAs, the Developer Edition
I recently spoke at the OKC SQL Saturday. I had an wonderful time and the organizers, volunteers and other speakers...
2016-09-06
392 reads
Copying an on-premise Database to an Azure SQL Database
Continuing my exploration of Azure the next logical step seemed to be copying an on-premise database up to the cloud....
2016-09-06 (first published: 2016-08-24)
1,834 reads
The new Data Migration Assistant has been released!
Monday Bob Ward (b/t) announced on twitter that the new Data Migration Assistant had been released.
First things first the DMA...
2016-08-31
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Natural vs Artificial Primary Keys
There has been a long standing debate over the use of a natural primary key vs an artificial one. I...
2016-08-29
1,236 reads
RBAR vs Batch
Many years ago Jeff Moden (of SQL Server Central fame) came up with the concept of RBAR. Row-By-Agonizing-Row. At it’s...
2016-08-25 (first published: 2016-08-17)
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Blogs
TempDB Internals – What’s New (SQL Server 2016 to 2022)
By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 2: Generative AI, Multimodal Systems, and Agent AI
By Vinay Thakur
continuing from Day 1 where we covered the history of AI and GPT family,...
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A Quick Restore
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Guarding Against SQL Injection at the Database Layer (SQL Server)
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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
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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