Getting Started with the Modern.ie VMs on VirtualBox with IIS Express
Microsoft has made pre-packaged Virtual Machine images available for purposes of testing different versions of IE via the modern.ie web...
2014-05-22
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From Zero to Pull Request with Git on Windows
I wrote a guide about using Git and GitHub for "Windows people".
This is the guide I wish was available when...
2014-04-22 (first published: 2014-04-16)
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Rounding versus truncating
Be careful when implicitly converting data types in T-SQL. Directly assigning 1.5 (either as a FLOAT or a NUMERIC) to...
2014-04-15
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Query to Find "Update" Dependencies on a Table or View (SQL Server 2012)
The built-in dependency finder in SQL Server Management Studio does not provide the ability to distinguish between dependencies that are...
2013-07-23
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How To Make Your DLL Into A NuGet Package for a Private NuGet Feed
This is my reinterpretation of the documentation on NuGet.org, modified to remove the public publishing steps, and to add local...
2013-06-05
25,184 reads
Performing an INSERT from a PowerShell script
This code demonstrates how to do an INSERT into SQL Server from a PowerShell script using an ADO.NET command object...
2013-05-24
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Setting up an Internal Friendly URL
Note: This solution is not necessarily the best or most efficient solution in all cases. It is, however, very simple...
2013-02-27
3,317 reads
Using SkyDrive at Work for Collaboration - A Quick Start Guide
It seems that many of my projects in the past year or so have required sharing files with external business...
2013-02-06
1,171 reads
Using Inline “With” Blocks to Augment a VB.NET Default Constructor
Say you have a simple data transfer class that looks like this:
Public Class Employee
Public Property Name As String
Public...
2013-02-02
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IIS Express Quickie Command-line
This is a reminder to my future self for how to quickly start IIS Express from the command-line on 64-bit...
2012-11-24
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Blogs
DiskANN Experiment — Exploring Entry Points and Graph Neighborhoods
Introduction I was experimenting with vector search in SQL Server 2025 using approximately 3.8...
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
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Reusing Customer Specific Order Filtering Logic with CROSS APPLY and an Inline TVF (Part 4)
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PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Databases
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PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Databases
Which of the following meta commands (sometimes called backslash or slash commands) within psql will provide you with information about the databases on the cluster?
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