TSQL Tuesday: Why Are DBA Skills Necessary
Quote: “Database stuff, all this programming stuff, is easy. Anyone can do it. That’s why everyone in the company has sa...
2010-11-02
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The Scary DBA
SQLServerPedia Awards
Right, I said I wouldn’t compete, but I can’t help pointing out that I’m pretty proud of this particular blog...
2010-11-01
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More Voting
As if the US Election and SQL Rally voting were not enough (and have you voted yet for the SQL...
2010-11-01
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Get Out The Vote
It’s actually kind of cool that SQL Rally voting for the pre-conference seminars and voting in the real(ish) world in...
2010-10-31
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Scary DBA Halloween Special
Not so much my special as SQL Saturday #59's Special. These guys in NYC are pulling out all the stops....
2010-10-29
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PASS Summit Blogging
During the PASS Summit I have again been given the opportunity to keep my laptop plugged in… as long as...
2010-10-28
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Writing Opportunities
Are you looking for opportunities to show off your elite writing skills and consumate SQL Server knowledge? Want a chance...
2010-10-28
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SQL Rally: Performance Tuning Abstract
I get the call, you get the call, everyone gets the call. “Hey, my app/procedure/query/report is running slow.” Now what...
2010-10-28
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Virtual Presentation Tomorrow
I’ll be presenting a practice run at one of my PASS Summit presentations, Identifying Common Performance Problems using Execution Plans,...
2010-10-27
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SQL Rally: One Day on Query Performance Tuning
The SQLRally, a new PASS initiative taking place in the spring, is going to be a community driven event. This...
2010-10-26
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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
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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