Speaker of the Month: February 2016
I’ve been a little remiss on this. I just haven’t been getting out to see people speak for a while...
2016-02-12
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Blog Posts
Book Review – Expert Performance Indexing
A few weeks back, the folks at Apress Publishing sent me a copy of the book Expert Performance Indexing in...
2016-02-11 (first published: 2016-02-02)
2,085 reads
How to Install Microsoft R Server for Windows
Microsoft R Server, or Revolution R Enterprise (RRE) as it is formally known, for now, is basically a platform for...
2016-02-11 (first published: 2016-02-02)
3,045 reads
Moving to Open Live Writer
I’ve used Windows Live Writer for almost as long as I’ve been blogging (mid 2007 or so). It’s worked well...
2016-02-11
790 reads
SQL Family: The Wonder Years
Last week, Bill Wolf aka @SQLWareWolf and I somehow got onto the topic of High School pictures. So in jest, I...
2016-02-11
268 reads
Text Mining Loch Ness Monster Sightings
Text Mining with RapidMiner for Loch Ness Monster Sightings
Text mining involves pulling root words from text in a system. In...
2016-02-11
508 reads
Azure SQL Database monitoring
Even though an Azure SQL Database stores all data on the Azure cloud, it does not mean that your options for managing...
2016-02-10
763 reads
Changing to simple recovery to clear the log.
Clearing out a full transaction log is a common problem. A quick search will find you dozens of forum entries...
2016-02-10
582 reads
CROSS APPLY v InLine Functions
While working on the Advent of Code problems in SQL, I ran across something interesting. Day 4 involves hashing, which...
2016-02-10
2,173 reads
How Bad Are Your Indexes?
In my last post "Copying SSIS packages With DTUTIL" I described a "gotcha" where the dynamic management views (DMVs) had...
2016-02-10
3,133 reads
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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Building a Support Ticket Triage Report with IIF() and CHOOSE() in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Tables
Which of the following psql meta commands (also called backslash or slash commands) will provide information about tables within a database?
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