Analytics Platform System (APS) AU5 released
The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has just released an appliance update (AU5),...
2016-04-14
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Blog Posts
Basic SQLCMD–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-04-14
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Changing Of the Guard
As many of you know, I stay very active within the PASS community. In late 2007 I got my start,...
2016-04-14
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Cool Tools: Powershell ISE-Steroids
Disclaimer: I have been provided with a free license because I am reviewing. This doesn't impact my assessment of the...
2016-04-14
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Modulo!
I love this somewhat obscure mathematical operator. All it does is return the remainder of a division statement but even...
2016-04-14
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MongoDB – How to Copy Database
Using copydb
Run the copydb under admin database with from,to, host parameters
>use admin
switched to db admin
> db.runCommand({ copydb: 1, fromdb: “test”,...
2016-04-14
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The Next Chapter ~ A SQL Journey
The past five years have been nothing short of an amazing ride on this thing we call “The SQL Journey”....
2016-04-14
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
The next few months will be crazy for me. I will be travelling a lot around Europe, speaking about SQL Server topics.
Here is where...
2016-04-14
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XP_CmdShell isn’t Evil
Bonus summary: xp_cmdshell is limited to admins, unless you specifically grant permissions to users. And if you’re an admin, you have...
2016-04-14 (first published: 2016-04-09)
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Awesome SQL Server Feature
There are a lot of cool features in SQL Server that ROCK! It is really hard to pick just one with so many cool features that can make life...
2016-04-13
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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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Question of the Day
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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