A Lack of Excitement
I usually use all the problems, crashes, and issues that I run into at work as grist for my mill,...
2009-12-23
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The Scary DBA
Apology
I’ve been somewhat light in my blogging of late. Unfortunately, I just haven’t hit any interesting or difficult problems lately...
2009-12-22
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What is Your Greatest Weakness
I was tagged earlier this week by Tim Ford to comment on my biggest weakness. I wish I could say...
2009-12-15
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T-SQL Tuesday #1: Date/Time Tricks
I’m going to try out Adam Machanic’s idea for a blog party. The topic this month are Date/Time tricks.
Instead of...
2009-12-08
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Dr. DeWitt’s Key Note at the PASS Summit
If you missed this, here’s your chance to make it up. If you were there, and like me, you need...
2009-12-02
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SQL Standard Update
Andy Warren in the latest PASS Connector has posted an update on where we’re at with the SQL Server Standard....
2009-12-02
647 reads
How do -You- use SQL Server
I’ve been tagged by a misplaced yankee, uh, New Englander, whatever. The question is, how do I/we use SQL Server...
2009-12-01
773 reads
SQL Saturday #34/New England Data Camp v2.0
It’s official sports fans. Well, it’s been official since last week since Adam Machanic set up the web site. The...
2009-11-30
1,380 reads
XQuery For Idiots
I’m still struggling with learning XQuery. My latest little revelation was small, but vital.
The difference between:
@inXML.nodes('/rss/channel/item')and
@inXML.nodes('/rss[1]/channel[1]/item')Is the difference between a...
2009-11-30
1,745 reads
SQL Server XQuery For Idiots
I’m still struggling with learning XQuery. My latest little revelation was small, but vital.
The difference between:
@inXML.nodes('/rss/channel/item')and
@inXML.nodes('/rss[1]/channel[1]/item')Is the difference between a...
2009-11-30
1,531 reads
Blogs
The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out...
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...
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
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
Not Just an Upgrade
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Not Just an Upgrade
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