and other pointless query rewrites
In a similar vein to last week’s blog post… I heard an interesting comment recently. “Change that Column != 2 to...
2016-02-17 (first published: 2016-02-09)
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Blog Posts
Azure SQL Database security
Life we be so much easier if we could just trust everyone, but since we can’t we need solid security...
2016-02-17
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CONVERT and HEX
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-02-17
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Leadership and the Data Professional
Many traits make up data professionals and the many who find themselves in leadership roles. The traits being shared in...
2016-02-17 (first published: 2016-02-10)
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Pronouns in technical writing.
When doing technical writing, or for that matter most forms of writing , we need to be able to refer to...
2016-02-17
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TSQL Tuesday #75 – PowerBI
This month’s TSQL Tuesday post is from one of my favorite people in the community – Jorge Segarra a.k.a. SQL Chicken. It...
2016-02-17
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T-SQL Tuesday #75: Jump into Power BI
So this month I’ve decided to bring every participant in this blog series kicking and screaming into the BI world. Power BI, if you haven’t heard or seen it...
2016-02-17
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T-SQL Tuesday #75: Jump into Power BI
So this month I’ve decided to bring every participant in this blog series kicking and screaming into the BI world. Power BI, if you haven’t heard or seen it...
2016-02-17
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T-SQL Tuesday #75: Jump into Power BI
So this month I’ve decided to bring every participant in this blog series kicking and screaming into the BI world....
2016-02-17
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Building With Iron Pipe
For a while I’ve been wanting to do a project that used black iron pipe for the main structure. Kind...
2016-02-16
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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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