Using All Your Tools
Steve looks at a number of tools that you should spend time learning and building a level of comfort that enables you to use them in your daily work.
2019-12-07
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Cleaning up the [NOT] NULL for Columns with SQL Prompt 10
SQL Prompt 10 is out and there are a few interesting things that have changed in the product. One of these is the Quick Fixes, inspired by some other...
2019-12-06 (first published: 2019-11-25)
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HP is the 2019 Laptop Winner
This is for me, not necessarily for you, but I decided to go with the HP Spectre again. I saw an email from Best Buy over the Thanksgiving weekend,...
2019-12-06
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2019-12-06
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What's a forgivable mistake?
Today Steve wonders if your company is understanding of your human frailty.
2019-12-06
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Expect the Unexpected with DiRT
Disaster recovery is no joke at Google, where they really test their systems, people, and processes.
2019-12-05
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2019-12-04
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Proactive Performance Tuning
Being proactive in trying to improve your system is good, but sometimes your team might cause you problems with their efforts.
2019-12-04
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HSA for Training
Is there a good way to ensure employees get trained? Steve has a few thoughts today on an idea that could help.
2019-12-03
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2019-12-03
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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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Communication, For Incidents and Life
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PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Tables
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Building a Support Ticket Triage Report with IIF() and CHOOSE() in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Tables
Which of the following psql meta commands (also called backslash or slash commands) will provide information about tables within a database?
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