What I’ve Been Up To Lately
I ran into a friend at a recent event and during the discussion he asked what I was doing lately...
2011-08-24
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SQLAndy
PASS Update #62
Our most recent Board meeting was Aug 11 & 12 in Ft Lauderdale (located so we could attend SQLSaturday on Saturday)....
2011-08-24
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Defining Your Culture
Imagine that you take over a team, department, maybe even a whole company, and as you look around at how...
2011-08-23
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Networking Dinner at the PASS Summit 2011
We’re repeating our event this year, a low key no sponsor dinner for those that arrive early and want to...
2011-08-22
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Writing Your Resume
There’s a lot of info out there about putting together a resume, and I probably can’t add a lot, but...
2011-08-17
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You Are Allowed to Care About Whatever You Want
I wanted to write this because its often overlooked. I care about things that may not interest you, things that...
2011-08-16
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Micromanaging
Micromanaging is one of those words that evokes an instant negative image. Certainly there are times when it happens, but...
2011-08-15
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Notes from SQLSaturday #79
This was the third SQLSaturday in South Florida and the third time I’ve attended, just too good an event to...
2011-08-15
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Meet the PASS Board at SQLSaturday #79 In South Florida
We’re having a PASS Board meeting and many of us will be staying for the event on Saturday (and an...
2011-08-12
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Seeking Volunteers for the Nomination Committee
We have a few changes in the election process for PASS this year, one of them is that we have...
2011-08-11
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
Deployment Pipelines in Fabric – What Are They?
By HeyMo0sh
In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as...
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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