Check Your Azure Account Usage
It is absolutely not cool or fun to pay money to learn new technology. One of the main complaints people...
2013-08-27
784 reads
The Scary DBA
Make the PASS Summit Work For Your Employer
It was pointed out to me that since PASS is such a huge networking event, any employer would be crazy...
2013-09-02 (first published: 2013-08-26)
1,958 reads
SQL CAT is on the Move
Not a big deal really, but they’re consolidating from the SQLCAT.COM to put everything on MSDN.
Read all about it here.
I...
2013-08-23
724 reads
Get Started with Windows Azure SQL Database
Learning new things can be daunting. First, you have to come up with the spare time. Then you have track...
2013-08-27 (first published: 2013-08-22)
2,428 reads
Speaking this Fall
I’ve been at home through the whole month of August, restingworking hard, but it’s time to get on the road...
2013-08-21
863 reads
Azure Changes, While I’m Working
My laptop is out for repair. I’m working currently on a Surface Pro instead. It’s spurred me to do something...
2013-08-19
804 reads
Azure and Your MSDN Account
I’ve heard over and over again that the reason people don’t want to learn Azure, to explore it, to understand...
2013-08-15
750 reads
You should NOT attend the PASS Summit
If you asked me, prior to today, if I would type or say those words, I would have laughed right...
2013-08-12
742 reads
Be Cautious When Critizing About Guidance
I recently posted some comments about some guidance offered by Microsoft when talking about the CXPACKET wait type. Nothing I...
2013-08-07
675 reads
24 Hours of PASS Streaming Available
If you missed the 24 Hours of PASS Summit 2013 Preview, you missed some excellent sessions. I watched a few,...
2013-08-13 (first published: 2013-08-07)
1,238 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