Webinar Followup: Migrating your SQL Server VMs to Azure with PowerShell
Earlier this week I presented a free webinar for Pragmatic Works where I discussed how to migrate virtual machines to...
2015-11-19
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Blog Posts
CHECKDB - The database could not be exclusively locked to perform the operation
…so the job failed….again…you know the one – that darn Integrity Check job: Executing query "DECLARE @Guid UNIQUEIDENTIFIER EXECUTE msdb..sp_ma...".: 100% complete ...
2015-11-18 (first published: 2015-11-16)
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In-Memory OLTP Table Checkpoint Processes Performance Comparison
Checkpoint processes and other internal processes have undergone major changes for In Memory OLTP tables and transactions. The following article...
2015-11-18
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Naught to Speaker pt 3
Becoming a speaker is one heck of a journey. Early this year I submitted a session to speak at Pass...
2015-11-18
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One Tool to Rule Them All – Almost
There we so many cool announcements at the PASS Summit this year, but one of my favorites was the “One...
2015-11-18
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Selectively Locking Down Data - Gracefully
I have a situation where I need to retrieve the data in an encrypted column from, but don’t want to give all my users access to the symmetric key...
2015-11-18
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Viewing Extended Properties for Information
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as#SQLNewBloggers.
I’ve...
2015-11-18
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[T-SQL Tuesday] Data modeling: The trouble with prefixes
This month, Mickey Stuewe (b|t) hosted T-SQL Tuesday, giving us a topic of “data modeling gone wrong“. This is a fantastic...
2015-11-17
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[T-SQL Tuesday] Data modeling: The trouble with prefixes
This month, Mickey Stuewe (b|t) hosted T-SQL Tuesday, giving us a topic of “data modeling gone wrong“. This is a fantastic...
2015-11-17
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Create stub tSQLt tests in SSDT from stored procedures
I have released another tool as part of the ssdt dev pack, what this does is create tSQLt classes and...
2015-11-17
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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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