So You Want to Write a Book?
What the heck is wrong with you?
Still interested? Fine. I’ll tell you my take on this whole business. I’m only...
2010-02-19
701 reads
The Scary DBA
Buck Woody on Code Writing Code
I realize I’m prejudiced, being one of those evil DBA’s & all, but I can’t help but agree with him. It’s...
2010-02-16
779 reads
nHibernate Database, First Look
I’m getting my first look at a full-fledged nHibernate database developed by consultants for our company. I thought I’d share...
2010-02-15
1,289 reads
SQL Saturday #34 Wrap-up
Whew!
It’s over. New England Data Camp v2, aka, SQL Saturday #34, was completed on Saturday. Going in we had maxed...
2010-02-01
582 reads
SQL Saturday #34
The event is this Saturday. Take a look at our sponsors, speakers and the program. It’s going to be a...
2010-01-27
589 reads
A Call to Arms
Phil Factor’s most recent guest editorial over at SQL Server Central has, to a degree, pointed out that the emporer’s...
2010-01-25
801 reads
PowerShell Script for Creating Indexes
I needed to create an identical index on a bunch of tables within one of my projects (yes, I know...
2010-01-21
1,810 reads
What three events brought you here?
Another one of the DBA bloggers games of tag is occurring. I’ve been asked by Tom LaRock to answer Paul...
2010-01-18
748 reads
Database Design Process
Buck Woody recently asked a question; how do you design a database. He outlined the process he followed and asked...
2010-01-18
1,915 reads
SQL Server Standard Volume 7 Issue 1
Kathi Kellenberger’s fantastic new article is available in the latest issue of SQL Server Standard. There are a lot more...
2010-01-13
837 reads
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...
Forums
would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I'm thinking about submitting some articles
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Not Just an Upgrade
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Question of the Day
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