Learning Azure From The Web
I’m working on a technical blog post that I hope to be putting up soon. I’ve run into a number...
2017-04-03
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The Scary DBA
Random Blogging Challenge Results
The winner is: Everyone.
Hey, the challenge was random. I didn’t promise a prize or a winner. Instead, I suggested everyone...
2017-03-29
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Sharing With You In All Fifty States
I made a mistake the other day. For some reason I got it into my head that I was flying...
2017-03-28
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Why You Should Change the Cost Threshold for Parallelism
I’ve written several times about the Cost Threshold for Parallelism and it’s relationship to your execution plans, how to determine...
2017-03-23 (first published: 2017-03-13)
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Help Me, Help You, Deliver DevOps
I believe in DevOps.
Actually, that’s a pretty horrible way to put it. It’s not about belief, like keeping Tinkerbell alive.
I...
2017-03-20 (first published: 2017-03-07)
1,837 reads
SQL Clone and a Little Competition
Redgate has released a new product, SQL Clone. I’ve already talked about how excited I am about it. Now, it’s...
2017-03-13 (first published: 2017-03-06)
1,755 reads
Random Blog Post Challenge
OK, for no particular reason at all or maybe because I had too much food at lunch or just because...
2017-03-02
395 reads
Determining the Cost Threshold for Parallelism
In the previous post, I showed how you can get full listings of your execution plan costs. Knowing what the...
2017-03-09 (first published: 2017-02-28)
1,951 reads
SQL Clone
Today is the launch of SQL Clone, a great new tool that helps you quickly and easily provision SQL Server...
2017-03-06 (first published: 2017-02-27)
2,145 reads
I Don’t Understand
I suspect this may make a few people angry, but I felt the need to share.
I was recently asked to...
2017-03-03 (first published: 2017-02-24)
3,365 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
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