Microsoft SharePoint Online
Microsoft SharePoint Online is a cloud-based service that is part of the recently released Microsoft Office 365. For those of us...
2011-08-17
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James Serra's Blog
Using SSIS lookup transformation editor with millions of rows
If you are using a SSIS lookup transformation editor and the reference dataset is large (millions of rows) and you...
2011-08-15
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SSAS Maestro Program (or SQL BI MCM)
There is a very interesting new Microsoft program that started back in January, called the SSAS Maestro Program. It is a five-day,...
2011-08-12
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Product Guide for SQL Server “Denali” released
Released today, the SQL Server code name ‘Denali’ Community Technical Preview 3 (CTP3) Product Guide download contains the latest datasheets, white...
2011-08-11
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SQL Server “Denali”: Distributed Replay
Replaying multiple threads of a captured trace in SQL Profiler is difficult, and you are limited to replaying the workload from...
2011-08-10
1,588 reads
Tools to make creating MDX much easier
For those of you who use MDX, I’m sure you share my opinion that MDX is a lot harder to...
2011-08-08
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Microsoft Certifications and MVP’s – What are they?
I take it for granted that everyone knows all about Microsoft certifications and Microsoft MVP’s. But a few years ago,...
2011-08-05
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How to Run Programs as a Domain User from a Non-domain Computer
As a consultant or contractor, many times the client we are at does not provide us with a laptop, so we must...
2011-08-03
1,389 reads
SQL Server “Denali”: Project Apollo
Project Apollo is a new feature in CTP3 of SQL Server Denali that enables a new columnstore index that offers...
2011-08-01
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Dual monitors, dual laptops, and the best way to manage them
Here is a tip that could make you much more productive: At home, I have a desktop computer with dual-monitors...
2011-07-29
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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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I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
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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