Continuous Learning
In case you can’t tell from some of my blog posts, I’m a bit of an advocate for DevOps. I’m extremely fortunate in my employer, Redgate Software, that they...
2019-07-01
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The Scary DBA
From Evangelist to Advocate
It’s time for a little bit of change to occur. I am no longer a Product Evangelist for Redgate Software. No, they haven’t fired me and I haven’t quit....
2019-06-25
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The Constant and Constantly Changing Role of the DBA
I’ve been working in and around data for over 30 years now. My title has changed a number of times and is poised to change again. My responsibilities have...
2019-06-24
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SQL Server Containers Are Boring
Not really, but sort of. The beauty of containers, at least in a dev/test environment, is the ability to spin them up while you need them and then throw...
2019-07-04 (first published: 2019-06-17)
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My #SQLFamily
To my Data Family, Redgate Family, #SQLFamily, and Family Family:Thank you!I love you!Keep going!
The post My #SQLFamily appeared first on Grant Fritchey.
2019-06-10
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Which Query Used the Most CPU? Implementing Extended Events
A question that comes up on the forums all the time: Which query used the most CPU. You may see variations on, memory, I/O, or just resources in general....
2019-06-03
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Container: More on Volumes
In my last post I showed how you can create a volume with your container. I then showed a few things you can with a container using a volume....
2019-06-17 (first published: 2019-05-28)
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Containers: Create a Custom Container
Creating a custom container is where things get truly exciting. There’s actually a ton of work and knowledge around this. To start with, I’m going to keep it simple....
2019-06-12 (first published: 2019-05-24)
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Containers: Working With Volumes
In the previous two posts on containers I showed how use Docker commands to get an image and create a container. This time, we’re going to create a container...
2019-05-23
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Containers: Creating a Container
In yesterday’s blog post we pulled SQL Server images in preparation for today’s blog post where we create containers from those images. If you haven’t already, get Docker installed...
2019-05-22
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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?
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
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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