Challenge Accepted
There seemed to be some question whether my comfort level with my own masculinity would prevent me from wearing these:
Oh...
2014-07-23
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The Scary DBA
Victims of Success
I took part in the PASS Summit 2014 selection committee this year because I was really curious about seeing how...
2014-07-21
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Execution Plan Details
I wouldn’t say it’s common knowledge that you should look at execution plans when tuning queries, but it’s not exactly...
2014-07-17 (first published: 2014-07-15)
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Speaker of the Month, July 2014
Another month another bunch of great presentations. I almost don’t want to do this any more. It’s hard. I sit...
2014-07-11
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Worst Day of a DBAs Life
Red Gate Software is running a campaign around coping with the worst day of a DBAs life. We’ve been posting...
2014-07-08
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Reflections on the 2014 PASS Summit Selection Process
Oh we are a bunch of high school kids at heart. Maybe high school never ends (and there’s a nightmare,...
2014-07-03
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Statistics and Natively Compiled Procedures
Statistics are one of the single most important driving factors for the behavior of the query optimizer. The cardinality estimates...
2014-07-03 (first published: 2014-07-02)
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The Curse of Working With A DBA
I no more than finished my rant from last week than I started thinking about all the reasons why a...
2014-06-30
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Passion
I know I tend to be overly passionate. It’s something that has gotten me into trouble in the past. It’s...
2014-06-26
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The Utility of Execution Plans in Natively Compiled Procedures
I’m actually having problems identifying the utility of execution plans when working with natively compiled procedures. Or, put another way,...
2014-06-30 (first published: 2014-06-25)
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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