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Mic Drop

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  1. Russia's plans weren't to lose 10,000 men, close to 2,000 vehicles, and over 70 aircraft and be 10 days in without having gained significant ground.

    Interviews from captured Russian soldiers have indicated that they were told they'd be greeted as liberators and that the Ukrainians people would welcome them to free them from what they'd been told by Russian propaganda was a fascist regime.

  2. So if we were to reimagine Klaus Schwab then perhaps we could start at the beginning, with Klaus Schwab’s father, Eugen Schwab who was a military industrial contractor to the Nazi regime during world war 2.

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    According to investigative reporter Whitney Webb, the elder Schwab:

    “led the Nazi-supported German branch of a Swiss engineering firm into the war as a prominent military contractor. “

    That company, Escher-Wyss, used slave labour in Nazi efforts to develop an atom bomb. Years later, when Schwab sat on the board of directors, he approved an initiative to help the Apartheid era government of South Africa in their pursuit of an a-bomb.

    In this era of open talk about reparations, perhaps reimagining Klaus Schwab could prescribe that the World Economic Forum pay reparations to descendants of Nazi-era slave labour (concentration camps) and for their part in reinforcing Apartheid in South Africa.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/reimagining-world-economic-forum

  3. Both these words come from Old English. They were written as “hus” and “mus” back then, and the plurals were “hus” and “mys”. That is, the plural for “hus” was the same as singular, while the plural for “mus” changed the vowel. This difference in plurals is due to the fact that Old English was a gendered language, and while “mus” was a feminine noun (basically like we call a ship “she” today), “hus” was neuter. Nouns of different gender had different plural formation rules. Eventually English invented the new plural formation rule (by adding -s at the end of a word), but didn’t apply it to some feminine nouns like “mus”/“mouse” which retained their old plurals. Then English nouns lost their gender, and the vowels in words changed rather uniformly during the linguistic event called “The Great Vowel Shift”.

    Random fun fact about the English word mouse: The origins of that particular word can be traced back to an original Proto-Indo-European word that was spoken between 4500 and 6500 years ago. It was probably pronounced something like mus, with the vowel pronunciation a little unclear - it's changed in remarkably little in English from its hypothesized original form. From this ancient language descended many hundreds of other languages including English, Greek, Latin, Persian, and Hindi. It's also from this original word that the Latin speaking physicians came up with the term muscle because our muscles looked like little mice when contracted. Then that got imported into English at some point. The Greek prefix myo (as in Myocarditis) also comes from the same roots.

    There's a lot of words that originate from a common word ancestor like that. It's really interesting.

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  4. Below is a script that should be ran step by step and not all at once.  It’ll help you understand backup methodology and the importance of knowing how to recover to a point-in-time.  This is something a DBA will seldom have to do, but when the time comes, they’ll have to deliver as part of their core job responsibilities.  Nothing is more fundamental to a DBA than the ability to recover to a PIT.  

    /*
    Prerequisites: You should be a local administrator in Windows and a SQL Server sysadmin
    Purpose: The purpose of this exercise to simulate a production database's catastrophic failure
    and the steps a database administrator will need to take to bring production back on line. To simulate
    work pressure of a real production down scenario, understand these steps and syntax, and time yourself on how
    quickly you are able to recover the business transactions, and validate that they were restored.
    */


    --Create test database

    USE MASTER
    CREATE DATABASE [MyTestDB]
    GO

    --Create test table

    CREATE TABLE [MyTestDB]..[MyTable]
    (C1 INT)
    GO

    --Create full backup of test database

    BACKUP DATABASE [MyTestDB] TO DISK = 'C:\TEMP\MyTestDB.bak'
    GO

    --Create several new records to simulate business transactions

    USE MyTestDB;
    INSERT INTO MyTable VALUES (1)
    GO 5

    --Backing up transaction log to harden the business transactions to a transaction log backup file on disk

    BACKUP LOG [MyTestDB] TO DISK = 'C:\TEMP\MyTestDB_Log.trn';

    --Dropping database to simulate catastrophic database failure

    USE MASTER
    ALTER DATABASE [MyTestDB] SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE;
    DROP DATABASE [MyTestDB];
    GO

    --Restoring full database backup WITH NORECOVERY to simulate recovery process

    USE MASTER
    RESTORE DATABASE [MyTestDB] FROM DISK = 'C:\TEMP\MyTestDB.bak' WITH NORECOVERY

    --Restoring transaction log backup WITH RECOVERY to simulate restoring a transaction log backup to a point-in-time

    RESTORE LOG [MyTestDB] FROM DISK = 'C:\TEMP\MyTestDB_Log.trn' WITH RECOVERY
    GO

    --Validation that the 5 business transactions were restored

    SELECT * FROM [MyTestDB]..[MyTable]


     

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