Storage options on Azure
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure, created by Microsoft, for building, deploying and managing applications and services...
2015-12-01
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #73 Invitation – Naughty or Nice?
Hello Dear Reader! This is the first Tuesday of the month and you know what that means. It’s time to announce the T-SQL Tuesday Topic of the month! This...
2015-12-01
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Calculating Table Partition Sizes in Advance
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog]
Continuing on with my Partitioning post series, this is part 7.
The partitioning includes several major...
2015-11-30 (first published: 2015-11-23)
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Monday Morning SQL Break – November 30, 2015
It’s Monday time for this week’s blog and twitter round-up for last week. If you haven’t already, follow me on...
2015-11-30
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Summon Blue Screens of Death (for testing purposes only, of course)
Today I had a need to manually trigger and sustain a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) inside a Windows Server...
2015-11-30
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Why Should Data Professionals Automate?
Take a minute and look around you. Automation is all around you; whether you see it or not processes are...
2015-11-30 (first published: 2015-11-24)
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Columnstore Indexes – part 73 (“Big Delta-Stores with Nonclustered Columnstore”)
Continuation from the previous 72 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
Since the very first version of SQL...
2015-11-28
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Find duplicate indexes in SSDT
Update new download location is https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/435e7238-0e64-4667-8980-5… Duplicate indexes, one of the most pointless things you can do to a table...
2015-11-27
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Find duplicate indexes in SSDT
Update new download location is https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/435e7238-0e64-4667-8980-5… Duplicate indexes, one of the most pointless things you can do to a table that just adds pure overhead. No one likes them...
2015-11-27
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Find duplicate indexes in SSDT
Update new download location is https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/435e7238-0e64-4667-8980-5… Duplicate indexes, one of the most pointless things you can do to a table...
2015-11-27
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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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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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