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It’s not one of those things you have to do frequently but every now and again you need...
2016-01-18
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Blog Posts
SQL From South West to Scotland : SQLSaturdays #496 & #502
I’m happy, honoured and humbled to be able to say that I will be presenting pre-cons and both SQL Saturday...
2016-01-17
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Troubleshooting SQL Server Operating System Error 995
Operating System Error Message
Error: 18210, Severity: 16, State:1
BackupMedium::ReportIoError: write failure on backup device ‘VDI_ DeviceID ‘. Operating system error 995...
2016-01-16
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Book Review 2015
It’s been a few years since I wrote a review of books I’ve read, so this isn’t going to list...
2016-01-15 (first published: 2016-01-05)
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Chips and Margaritas at SQL Saturday #461
It was a few years back that my wife and I planned a trip to the Austin City Lights music...
2016-01-15
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Flexibility of T-SQL for designing user defined functions
SQL Server has plenty of built-in functions but sometimes we just have to combine some of them to create functions for...
2016-01-15
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New Year Wish List for SQL Server Features
With SQL Server 2016 to be officially released this year, I want to make a wish list for the features...
2016-01-15 (first published: 2016-01-10)
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2016-01-15
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T-SQL for UDFs
SQL Server has plenty of built-in functions, but sometimes we just have to combine some of them to create functions for...
2016-01-15
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T-SQL for UDFs
SQL Server has plenty of built-in functions, but sometimes we just have to combine some of them to create functions for our purposes. Such one, for example, is the function...
2016-01-15
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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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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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