Goodness-of-Fit Testing with SQL Server Part 6.2: The Ryan-Joiner Test
By Steve Bolton
…………In the last installment of this amateur series of self-tutorials, we saw how the Shapiro-Wilk Test might probably...
2016-03-12
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Blog Posts
Are You Data Driven? SQL Server 2016 revealed!
By now, all you folks who logged on to watch the ultimate Microsoft Data Driven event, streamed live from New...
2016-03-11
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Backing up to URL container name – case is important
If you use SQL Backup to URL to backup your databases to Azure blob storage remember that for the container name...
2016-03-11 (first published: 2016-03-03)
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Download Attachments from Exchange Web Services using SSIS
I recently worked on an engagement where the requirement was to process excel spreadsheets sent to a group mailbox hosted...
2016-03-11
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Download Attachments from Exchange Web Services using SSIS
I recently worked on an engagement where the requirement was to process excel spreadsheets sent to a group mailbox hosted...
2016-03-11
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Finding Strings
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-03-11
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How do I grant someone the ability to create a stored procedure?
The question of How to grant the ability to create/alter stored procedures and views came up today on dba.stackexchange.com. It’s...
2016-03-11 (first published: 2016-03-02)
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Monday Morning SQL Break – February 22, 2016
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly blog and twitter round-up for last week. If you haven’t already, follow me...
2016-03-11
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Reblog: MDS – A Database Error Has Occurred
I recently came across the following error message when I tried to look at the batches in the Integration Management...
2016-03-11
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SQL Server on Linux Authentication
Yesterday Microsoft announced that they will now support SQL Server on Linux. They are targeting mid-2017, but you can download...
2016-03-11
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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
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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