Analytics Platform System (APS) AU5 released
The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has just released an appliance update (AU5),...
2016-04-14
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James Serra's Blog
Scaling Azure VM’s
There are so many benefits to the cloud, but one of the major features is the ease of use in...
2016-04-05
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My latest presentations
I frequently present at user groups, and always try to create a brand new presentation to keep things interesting. We...
2016-03-29
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Data loading into Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) is a new platform-as-a service (PaaS) that distributes workloads across multiple compute resources, called massively parallel processing (MPP)....
2016-03-23
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Microsoft Azure Government
I’m sure you are aware of Microsoft Azure, but are you aware there is special version of Azure for U.S....
2016-03-15
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SQL Server on Linux!
Looks outside: pigs are flying!
In an announcement yesterday, SQL Server will be made available on Linux. The private preview of...
2016-03-08
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Cross-database queries in Azure SQL Database
A limitation with Azure SQL database has been its inability to do cross-database SQL queries. This has changed with the...
2016-03-02
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HP Superdome X for high-end OLTP/DW
No, Superdome X is not the name of the stadium where they played in the last Super Bowl. Rather, Superdome...
2016-02-25 (first published: 2016-02-24)
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Azure SQL Database security
Life we be so much easier if we could just trust everyone, but since we can’t we need solid security...
2016-02-17
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Azure SQL Database monitoring
Even though an Azure SQL Database stores all data on the Azure cloud, it does not mean that your options for managing...
2016-02-10
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The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
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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