Relational databases vs Non-relational databases
I see a lot of confusion about the place and purpose of the many new database solutions (“NoSQL databases”) compared...
2015-08-27
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I see a lot of confusion about the place and purpose of the many new database solutions (“NoSQL databases”) compared...
2015-08-27
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In my Introduction to Hadoop I talked about the basics of Hadoop. In this post, I wanted to cover some of...
2015-08-12
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The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has just released an appliance update (AU4),...
2015-08-06
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Yesterday at the Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference in Orlando Microsoft announced the Cortana Analytics Suite, which is a new package...
2015-07-14
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Just announced is the Microsoft Azure Data Catalog, which is an enterprise metadata catalog / portal for the self-service discovery of...
2015-07-10
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Polyglot Persistence is a fancy term to mean that when storing data, it is best to use multiple data storage technologies,...
2015-07-01
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Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) is a fully managed cloud service for real-time processing of streaming data. ASA makes it easy...
2015-06-03
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Massive parallel processing (MPP) is the future for data warehousing.
So what is MPP? SQL Server is a Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) solution, which...
2015-05-27
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SQL Server 2016 was recently announced. Top new features include:
Always Encrypted protects data at rest and in motion. With Always...
2015-05-20
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At the recent Microsoft Build Developer Conference, Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie announced the Azure Data Lake. It is a...
2015-05-13
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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...
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
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