PASS Summit 2009 – Day -1
The official start date for the summit is Tuesday, but trust me, everything kicked off on Sunday when registration opened....
2009-11-02
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The Scary DBA
More PASS Activities
As if I needed more.
I’ll be sitting at the blogger table and blogging live (as live as I get) during...
2009-10-30
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2009-10-28
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Snags With Profiler GUI
Running the Profiler GUI against a production server is not something you should do. I’ve outlined my research into exactly...
2009-10-28
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SQL Server Standard, Volume 6, Issue #1
It’s alive! It’s alive!
That’s enough from Colin Clive.
It’ll be out for the Summit. SQL Server Standard lives again! Although, not quite in...
2009-10-27
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PASS Summit One Week Away
It’s just a week and a couple of days before I’ll be hopping a plane for Seattle and the 2009...
2009-10-23
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Characters
No, I’m not talking about a Dickens novel. I’m talking about the number of characters in a string. I had...
2009-10-21
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Free Training RIGHT NOW
Quest Connect 2009 is occurring even as I type this. Get on over there if you’re interested in some free...
2009-10-21
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Birds Of a Feather Lunch
The PASS Summit agenda is shaping up and it’s already looking to be much busier than last year. The latest...
2009-10-21
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SNESSUG October Meeting
The Southern New England SQL Server Users Group’s October meeting was a bit sparsely attended with 7 attendees. The sponsor...
2009-10-15
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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?
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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