Getting Started with Power BI: Setup (Part 1 of 3)
This is part 1 of the Getting Started with Power BI series. Power BI is a powerful reporting and dashboarding...
2017-02-02
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Marc Beacom
Hiring Productive Employees – #TAPtips
Starting a business is easy. Have an idea, some skills, a customer or two, and you are in business. However,...
2017-01-31
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A New Year, A New Company and A New DenverSQL Chapter
2016 was a great year, both personally and professionally. Personally, our family is well and the kids are growing into...
2017-01-30
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Setting Up a Productive Work Environment – #TAPtips
Having a productive work environment for you and your team is important to facilitate tasks being accomplished as well as...
2017-02-03 (first published: 2017-01-25)
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Team Collaboration with Microsoft OneNote – #TAPtips
I was an early adopter of Microsoft’s OneNote and started using it in February of 2004 and have never stopped....
2017-01-17
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Increased Productivity with the Pomodoro Technique – TAPtips
Today's TAPtips is about Increased Productivity with the Pomodoro Technique. Have you tried the Pomodoro Technique? If so, what were...
2017-01-10
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Launching #TAPtips – Valuable Tips from Decades of Practice
Launching #TAPtips Blog Posts While forming Datalere, Carlos and I wanted to continue with our contributions to the Denver, Colorado...
2017-01-03
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DawaBI Merges with Quanta Intelligence to Broaden and Deepen our Service Offering
We’ve been working on this for a while now and I’m excited to announce the merger of Quanta Intelligence and...
2016-08-18
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PASS SQL Saturday Events: December 2014
DateEventDecember 6 SQLSaturday #359 – Istanbul 2014December 6 SQLSaturday #351 – Lima 2014December 6 SQLSaturday #347 – Washington DC 2014December 13 SQLSaturday #356...
2014-11-15
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5 things to know about Databricks
Databricks is now available in both AWS and Azure so it’s getting a lot of buzz! Let’s discuss 5 things you should know about Databricks before diving in. 1. ...
2014-11-03
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Blogs
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Next Monday, Marchg 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server 2025 Unleashed:...
What is ALM in Fabric?
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As someone who’s worked with data for over 20 years and with many cloud...
The Most Successful Startups in 2025 — And What They Have in Common
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2025 belongs to the AI startups. If you peek into the tech headlines, you’ll...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers