Vinay Thakur


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Azure – HorizonDB

As Open Source – PostgreSQL and AI is a growing and powerful DB system, AWS and Google already have AWS Aurora and Google AlloyDB, which are Cloud Native PostgreSQL...

2026-07-15 (first published: )

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Project Management – Part 1

The soul of project management is Process Group(PG) and Knowledge Area(KA). they are related and grouped as follows: Process Group[49] Knowledge Area with Process I will write detail blog...

2026-07-13

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SSMS Evaluation – future ready

In previous posts, we looked at the SQL Server engine. for us DBAs, the SSMS plays an important role for handling/Managing SQL Server. we have been using these tools...

2026-05-14 (first published: )

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OpenClaw- Agentic Engineering

This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and Aamir Lakhani- with great knowledge . during the session learned about OpenClaw and more. I...

2026-04-29 (first published: )

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SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption

Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this feature encrypts a physical layer of Database files Data/log files protection at Disk / storage...

2026-04-04 (first published: )

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T-SQL Tuesday #202 SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget: A Roundup

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Part 3 of 3: Tuning DiskANN — R, Alpha, L, Beam Width, Recall and Latency

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Question of the Day

The Disabled Index

I run this code on SQL Server 2022.

CREATE TABLE Drink
(
    drinkid INT NOT NULL
        CONSTRAINT DrinkPK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
    drinkname VARCHAR(20),
    rating NUMERIC(2, 1)
)
GO

INSERT INTO Drink
(
    drinkid,
    drinkname,
    rating
)
VALUES
(1, 'Margarita', 4.5),
(2, 'Mojito', 4.3),
(3, 'Old Fashioned', 4.7),
(4, 'Martini', 4.4),
(5, 'Cosmopolitan', 4.2)
GO
ALTER INDEX drinkpk ON dbo.drink DISABLE
GO
SELECT * FROM dbo.Drink
GO
What is the result?

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