Microsoft Build event announcements
Another Microsoft event and another bunch of exciting announcements. At the Microsoft Build event this week, the major announcements in the data...
2018-05-11
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James Serra's Blog
Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2 announced
Monday was announced the general availability of the Compute Optimized Gen2 tier of Azure SQL Data Warehouse. With this performance optimized tier, Microsoft...
2018-05-02
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Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2 announced
Monday was announced the general availability of the Compute Optimized Gen2 tier of Azure SQL Data Warehouse. With this performance optimized tier, Microsoft...
2018-05-02
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Podcast: Big Data Solutions in the Cloud
In this podcast I talk with Carlos Chacon of SQL Data Partners on big data solutions in the cloud. Here is...
2018-04-16
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Podcast: Big Data Solutions in the Cloud
In this podcast I talk with Carlos Chacon of SQL Data Partners on big data solutions in the cloud. Here is...
2018-04-16
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Cost savings of the cloud
I often hear people say moving to the cloud does not save money, but frequently they don’t take into account...
2018-04-11
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Cost savings of the cloud
I often hear people say moving to the cloud does not save money, but frequently they don’t take into account...
2018-04-11
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Podcast: Myths of Modern Data Management
As part of the Secrets of Data Analytics Leaders by the Eckerson Group, I did a 30-minute podcast with Wayne Eckerson where I...
2018-04-02
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Podcast: Myths of Modern Data Management
As part of the Secrets of Data Analytics Leaders by the Eckerson Group, I did a 30-minute podcast with Wayne Eckerson where I...
2018-04-02
166 reads
Webinar: Is the traditional data warehouse dead?
As a follow-up to my blog Is the traditional data warehouse dead?, I did a webinar on that very topic for...
2018-03-28
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
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Question of the Day
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