Database Backups: Things You Need To Do Now
I want to say a few things about database backups that you need to know.
Wait a minute, haven’t you written...
2012-01-16 (first published: 2012-01-11)
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The Scary DBA
PASS Summit 2012 Evaluation Results
I say it all the time because it’s worth repeating, feedback is a gift. Good, bad or indifferent (well, not...
2011-12-19
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SQL Saturday #104: Colorado Springs
I’ll be presenting at the Colorado Springs SQL Saturday on January 7th of 2012. The session is called Seven Ways...
2011-12-14
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Changes to SQL Server 2012 Execution Plans
I’ve been working with execution plans quite a lot in SQL Server 2012. There are a number of changes, most...
2011-12-12
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#sqlfamily
Microsoft is supporting an effort by PragmaticWorks targeted at supporting technical training for returning veterans. I can’t think of a...
2011-12-09
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SQL Connections Fall 2011 Speaker Evaluations
In keeping with the past, I’m going to go ahead and post my evals for the two sessions I did...
2011-12-06
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Resolutions: Outcome
Earlier this year, I wrote a post about my upcoming plans for the year in response to a question asked...
2011-12-05
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PASS Board Elections
Here is the list of suckers, uh, I mean, candidates, that actually want to subject themselves to the board. Look...
2011-11-30
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Installing SQL Server 2012 RC0
Very short informational post.
If you’re like me and you’ve been running the public Client Technology Preview (CTP3) of SQL Server...
2011-11-21
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Thank you
I somehow made the Top 10 Community Choice Bloggers in the SQL Server Magazine 2011 awards (keep scrolling to the...
2011-11-18
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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