The PASS Board: #passvotes
Ever been in a fight? Ever been in one that’s not completely going your way? I’ve done this and seen...
2014-10-02
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The Scary DBA
PASS Votes… A little bit more #passvotes
I am putting up an abnormal Saturday morning blog post in support of the actions taken by the PASS Board...
2014-09-27
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Development, Leadership, Age
While I was at the VMWare HQ getting some amazing training a few weeks ago, we had the opportunity to...
2014-09-26
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Thoughts on PASS Board Nomination Process: #passvotes
Having very recently gone through the nomination process for the PASS Board, I thought I would share a few things...
2014-09-24
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SQL Server Query Performance Tuning
The latest update to my book, SQL Server Query Performance Tuning was released last week. This is the fourth edition...
2014-09-23
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Communication and the Board: #PASSVotes
The whole idea behind PASS is to build a community of people who can assist each other in their daily...
2014-09-22
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A Manager or a Community Person: #PASSVotes
I am running for the PASS Board. You can read more about what I’ve posted and what others have to...
2014-09-19
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I Am Running For the PASS Board of Directors: #passvotes
This year, I submitted my application to run for the PASS Board and it was accepted. This then is my...
2014-09-22 (first published: 2014-09-17)
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PASS Summit 2014 Pre-Conference Seminar
I’m putting on a pre-conference seminar (also known as a pre-con) at the PASS Summit this year. I’m really honored...
2014-09-16
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Podcast on Devops and the Database
I’ve been attempting to expand my reach to get back to my roots in development. I’m doing this because I...
2014-09-15
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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?
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I'm thinking about submitting some articles
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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