SQLSaturday in Houston
This upcoming Saturday I will be presenting two sessions at SQLSaturday in Houston (more info). I hope to see you...
2014-05-08
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This upcoming Saturday I will be presenting two sessions at SQLSaturday in Houston (more info). I hope to see you...
2014-05-08
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I see a lot of confusion when it comes to Hadoop and its role in a data warehouse solution. Hadoop should...
2014-05-12 (first published: 2014-05-06)
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Thanks to everyone who attended my session “Modern Data Warehousing” at the PASS SQLSaturday Business Analytics edition in Dallas. The abstract is below. Great...
2014-05-04
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I will be presenting the session “Modern Data Warehousing” on Saturday at the PASS SQLSaturday Business Analytics edition in Dallas...
2014-04-30
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Analytics Platform System (APS) is simply a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW). It is not really a new...
2014-04-17
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Microsoft’s PDW has seen a big boost in visibility and sales over the past year, and part of the reason...
2014-04-15
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All PASS Summit 2012 recordings are now available for free to all PASS members (201 of them!). To view, log on...
2014-03-27
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I am happy to say I have published my first book! It is called Reporting with Microsoft SQL Server 2012...
2014-04-04 (first published: 2014-03-25)
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SQL Server 2014 has been released to manufacturers (RTM) and will be generally available April 1. Here is the official...
2014-03-20
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I have heard people say that the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) is Microsoft’s best kept secret. So let me give a...
2014-03-18
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By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Not Just an Upgrade
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