PASS Update #43
Last Friday saw the end of the 2010 PASS election and it was very nice to find out I had...
2010-09-20
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SQLAndy
SQLSaturday Event Leaders – Reserve Your Date for H1 2011
We’ll try to push this out through multiple channels, we’re trying to forecast dates to give those thinking about events...
2010-09-20
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CakeWrecks
Recently I had a student point me to CakeWrecks, a blog about good cakes gone bad.The post from today has...
2010-09-17
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Do You Have Influence? Part 2
I started writing on influence last week and promised some comments on how to build influence and credibility. There are...
2010-09-17
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Do You Have Influence? Part 1
Most people blog because it’s fun, rewarding, good way to improve writing skills, be cool, and it looks good on...
2010-09-16
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Notes from the Sep 13, 2010 oPASS Meeting
Jack led the meeting tonight, spending a good amount of time on SQLSaturday, and Kendal Van Dyke did his marketing...
2010-09-16
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Book Review: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
I read Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell on a recommendation by Andy Leonard. Easy recommendation...
2010-09-15
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PASS Election Ends Tomorrow (Sep 15, 2010)
If you haven’t voted I hope you will. Ballots were sent out via email to those members eligible to vote....
2010-09-14
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Failing Fast
I’ll have a longer post next week about my own risk strategy, but I wanted to write this first, both...
2010-09-14
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The SQLSaturday Squirrel
A bit of mid week humor. Recently I met up with Jack Corbett to review our room options for SQLSaturday...
2010-09-14
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Blogs
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it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
Forums
A Quick Restore
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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
Question of the Day
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