PASS Board: Year-End Wrap-Up
This month concludes my second full year on the PASS Board of Directors and my first full year on the...
2016-12-19
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The Scary DBA
OPTIMIZE FOR Hints When Parameter Sniffing is Turned Off
While presenting recently and talking about dealing with bad Parameter Sniffing, I got the question; what happens to OPTIMIZE FOR...
2016-12-12
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Presentations for SQL Server Beginners
Tired from all those blog postsFor my final blog post in the #gettingstarted, #iwanttohelp series, I decided to curate a...
2016-12-23 (first published: 2016-12-05)
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Database Clone
There are a bunch of ways you could create a database clone. Backup and restore is one method. Export/Import is...
2016-12-19 (first published: 2016-11-28)
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PowerShell to Test a Query
So you want to do some tuning, but you’re not sure how to test a query on it’s performance. Not...
2016-11-23
1,356 reads
SQL Server on Linux: Boring
As a concept, SQL Server on Linux is thrilling. Due to this, the OS doesn’t stand in the way of...
2016-11-22
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Query Data Store Data
The data in the Query Data Store is what makes all the magic happen. From collecting the aggregate performance metrics...
2016-11-28 (first published: 2016-11-21)
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Book Review: Marshmallow Test
Different people approach their career in different ways. My working assumption, all the time, is that I don’t know enough...
2016-11-18
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Azure Data Platform Learning Resources
I know that more and more of you are moving more and more resources into the Azure Data Platform. In...
2016-11-09
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PASS Board Update: Post-Summit 2016
Monday
I got in on Sunday and chose to have a small dinner with a couple of friends, quiet, preparing.
Monday was...
2016-11-08
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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...
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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