Mining for Experts
How do you determine who is an expert in a field? Or if they are willing to answer questions for others? A new system that should do just that intrigues Steve Jones.
2009-05-03
559 reads
Editorial - WMV
Mistakes in April
Steve Jones has a blooper reel for today that shows some of the things that happen when shooting a daily podcast.
2009-04-29
619 reads
Secure Storage
How do you keep the passwords and keys for encrypted data safe? Steve Jones comments on the challenges of working with keys and passwords.
2009-04-28
544 reads
The Best High Availability
Clustering is often the first choice for high availability, but is it the best choice? A lot of people think so, but Steve Jones has other thoughts.
2009-04-27
689 reads
All-Access
A licensing scheme from Embarcadero catches Steve Jones' eye. He comments on a great way for the company to work with customers.
2009-04-26
644 reads
Ethics and Leaders - Database Weekly (Apr 27, 2009)
This week Steve Jones discusses ethics and leadership in IT.
2009-04-24
766 reads
Interfaces
The interface is crucial for getting data in and out of a system. Steve Jones talks a little about past interfaces and possible future ones.
2009-04-22
667 reads
Manage Your Career
The person responsible for your career is you. Steve Jones gives you a few thoughts on how you might approach your career.
2009-04-21
283 reads
Take Advantage of Hard Times
With the economy in a downturn, Steve Jones talks about what you might want to do to be pro-active with your projects.
2009-04-20
66 reads
Giving Back
Steve Jones takes a minute today to congratulate Brian Knight and the Pragmatic Works Foundation for their efforts in giving back to the community.
2009-04-19
474 reads
Blogs
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...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
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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