Microsoft certification changes
A recent Microsoft blog post announced that they are releasing five new Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) and Developer (MCSD) specialties. ...
2016-10-05
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James Serra's Blog
Cortana Intelligence Solutions
Cortana Intelligence Solutions is a new tool just released in public preview that enables users to rapidly discover, easily provision, quickly experiment...
2016-09-29
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Making sense of Microsoft technology
In my role as a Data Platform Solution Architect (DPSA) at Microsoft, part of my responsibility is to keep up with...
2016-09-21
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The art of possible with the cloud
One thing I try to do in my role with Microsoft is to get clients to think of possible use...
2016-09-08
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SQL Server 2016 real-time operational analytics
SQL Server 2016 introduces a very cool new feature called real-time operational analytics, which is the ability to run both...
2016-08-24
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Azure SQL Database new performance level
A new performance level for Azure SQL Database was recently announced, called P15. This new offering is more than two...
2016-08-17
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Azure SQL Database vs SQL Data Warehouse
I am sometimes asked to compare Azure SQL Database (SQL DB) to Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW). The most important...
2016-08-17 (first published: 2016-08-10)
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What is the Lambda Architecture?
Lambda architecture is a data-processing architecture designed to handle massive quantities of data (i.e. “Big Data”) by using both batch-processing and...
2016-08-08 (first published: 2016-08-05)
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Multi-tenant databases in the cloud
For companies that sell an on-prem software solution and are looking to move that solution to the cloud, a challenge...
2016-07-20
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Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now GA
The Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW), that I blogged about here, is now generally available. Here is the official...
2016-07-13
586 reads
Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
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...
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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