Speaker of the Month: November 2014
I have been very remiss in my blogging of late. Apologies.
One thing I haven’t blogged about is Speaker of...
2014-12-05
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The Scary DBA
PASS Summit 2014 Speaker Idol
For the first time ever at the PASS Summit, a competition was held to select a speaker for the 2015...
2014-11-13
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I’m Still Not on the Board
I’m just back from the PASS Summit 2014. What a great event. But this year, it was a little different....
2014-11-11
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PASS Summit 2014: WIT Luncheon
Since I’m starting on the board in January, I’ve stopped taking part in the bloggers table during keynotes. First time...
2014-11-06
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Database Lifecycle Management
There are lots of people who talk about Application Lifecycle Management. But, the database is a major part of every...
2014-10-31 (first published: 2014-10-20)
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Why Haven’t You Changed Everything?
The first in what I hope will be many regular reports on what I’m doing on the PASS board.
To answer...
2014-10-17
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Query Performance Tuning in SQL Server
I have a pre-con coming up at the PASS Summit. You can read about it here. I named it “Query...
2014-10-16
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Thank You: #passvotes
The results are in and it seems that I’ve been elected to a place on the PASS Board.
Thank you.
I will...
2014-10-15
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Navel Gazing
I love negative feedback. Well, not really. I love constructive feedback. I love the feedback that gives me things to...
2014-10-17 (first published: 2014-10-12)
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Speaker of the Month: October 2014
I saw a whole bunch of great sessions last month. I was all over the place from Las Vegas to...
2014-10-09
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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