A Thought on Career Decisions
One of the many conversations I had at the PASS Summit was about whether to pursue Direction A or Direction...
2011-10-28
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SQLAndy
Seeing Yourself as Others Do
As life skills go one of the hardest is to see yourself as others do – they apply all kinds of...
2011-10-25
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PASS Update #66 (All Good Things)
Last week I emailed the Board of Directors my resignation effective December 31st of this year, ending my current term...
2011-10-24
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Virtual/Adhoc Teams
I’m a fan of virtual teams, times when you pull together people from across many teams to form a team...
2011-10-20
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3D Printing for Under $1000
I saw this about the iModela 3d printer, it’s priced under $1000, making it approachable if not quite cheap. 3d...
2011-10-19
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Culture Posters
I work with a client now that had a poster made of the top 10 values for the IT department....
2011-10-19
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Next PASS Summit is Nov 6-9, 2012
After enjoying the entirely reasonable weather in Seattle in October this year we’ll return to our more traditional time frame...
2011-10-19
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2011 PASS Summit-Report #4
I’m writing this at the Seattle airport on Friday night with a couple hours to relax before the midnight flight...
2011-10-15
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2011 PASS Summit–Report #3
Friday morning keynote. Quick intro from Rick Heiges. Buck Woody and Rob Farley singing, quite the sight for Friday morning....
2011-10-14
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2011 PASS Summit–Report #2
Starting the keynote on Wednesday, Bill Graziano talking about Kilt Day, quite a few of the bloggers wearing kilts (no,...
2011-10-13
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Blogs
TempDB Internals – What’s New (SQL Server 2016 to 2022)
By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 2: Generative AI, Multimodal Systems, and Agent AI
By Vinay Thakur
continuing from Day 1 where we covered the history of AI and GPT family,...
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A Quick Restore
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I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
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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