Reading Your Execution Plans
I’m putting the finishing touches on the all day seminar on execution plans that I’ll be putting on at DevConnections this...
2015-08-06
928 reads
The Scary DBA
PASS Needs You!
It’s time.
No more procrastinating. No more complaining about the process from the outside. No more excuses.
You have to run for...
2015-08-05
577 reads
Differences Between Actual & Estimated Plans
I have, in the past, made way too much of the need for Actual Plans when doing performance troubleshooting. The...
2015-08-03
870 reads
Hey Kids! Let’s Put on a Show at the Old Barn
Alternate Title: I’m traveling a bunch. Let’s get together and talk.
A bunch of trips and presentations coming up, so I...
2015-07-29
961 reads
Grant’s Fly-by-night Leadership Course – The Plan
Get a better nameDefine my personal goals for the courseI won’t be sharing these with you. I may share them...
2015-08-07 (first published: 2015-07-28)
1,885 reads
SQL Server Management Studio – Footloose and Fancy Free
That’s right. There’s been a divorce. SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) has been divorced from the server product. In fact,...
2015-07-20
732 reads
How Do You Know You’re Good At Your Job?
You’ve been working as a DBA for X number of years. How do you know you’re good at it? Heck,...
2015-07-13
611 reads
But I Don’t Have a Test Server…
I frequently see statements on forums along the lines of “I don’t have a test server, so I’m going to...
2015-07-10 (first published: 2015-07-06)
3,145 reads
Speaker of the Month: June 2015
With my travel schedule, I don’t always get out to events where I can see a community speaker. Sometimes, I...
2015-07-03
576 reads
Leadership Training Possibility
I know a few people in the SQL Server community who have been involved in Scouting. A couple of them...
2015-06-30
993 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
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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