Speaking at SQLSaturday Pensacola
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQLSaturday Pensacola on June 4th 2016! This will be my second SQLSaturday event and I’m really excited that I get to...
2016-04-23
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Blog Posts
SQLSaturday Atlanta #521 May 19th & 20th 2016
SQLSaturday events are a pleasure to be a part of whether it involves speaking or volunteering. Volunteering definitely takes more...
2016-04-23
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Azure SQL Database pricing
Pricing Azure SQL database is difficult because various database service tier options such as database transaction units (DTU’s), max database size,...
2016-04-22
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SQL 2016 – Dynamic Data Masking
One of the new features that’s coming with SQL Server 2016 is Dynamic Data Masking. DDM is designed to allow...
2016-04-22 (first published: 2016-04-13)
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SQL Server 2016 – It just runs faster SQL Server Engineer Blog Post Overview
In March the CSS SQL Server Engineers started to blog about various new enhancements made to the SQL Server Engine...
2016-04-22 (first published: 2016-04-13)
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Upcoming Webinars
Next week I am participating in two exciting webinars that I want to share with you!
Improve App Uptime: Tips from MVP...
2016-04-22
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Broken Left Join
Here is a simple example of a LEFT JOIN that returns the sales stats for all employees under 21.
SELECT e.Name,...
2016-04-21
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Cardinality Estimator - Part 2- Out of Date Statistics
Continuing from our series on Cardinality Estimator 2014, Let us look at the first difference between 2 CE models. The...
2016-04-21 (first published: 2016-04-12)
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Columnstore Indexes: Finally Awesome in SQL 2016
Columnstore indexes are amazing for optimizing the performance of large rowcount queries that would otherwise look like a SCAN operation in...
2016-04-21
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How Long Did That Job Run?
When you use the msdb tables to try to gather information on your SQL Server Agent jobs, inevitably you will...
2016-04-21 (first published: 2016-04-14)
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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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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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