A New Word: Fitzcarraldo
fitzcaraldo – n. a random image that becomes lodged deep in your brain – maybe washed there by a dream, or smuggled inside a book, or planted during a...
2023-07-28
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Blog Posts
Creating a Speaking Failures Support Group
Earlier this week the emails went out to speakers who submitted to the PASS Data Community Summit 2023 conference. These were acceptances and rejections, letting people know the results...
2023-07-28 (first published: 2023-07-13)
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The two hardest concepts of security are Who? and Where?
I was having a conversation with some friends the other day and Jen McCown (blog|twitter) asked about SQL Server security ... Continue reading
2023-07-28 (first published: 2023-07-13)
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I’m back! I’m still a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. And other minor life updates.
I stopped blogging late last year. I’ll be honest, I was tired. I had decided to take a month or ... Continue reading
2023-07-27
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Code that made you feel a certain way : T-SQL Tuesday #164
It’s been a while, but I’m finally participating in T-SQL Tuesday again! This month Erik Darling (blog|twitter) is hosting. Ever ... Continue reading
2023-07-26 (first published: 2023-07-11)
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T-SQL Tuesday #164: Code that makes you feel
The invitation this month is from Erik Darling, and it’s a neat one. I like this thought, asking us to find code that impressed us or made us feel...
2023-07-26 (first published: 2023-07-11)
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100 Blog Posts Milestone
Good morning dear reader, Long time no talk. It has been a jam-packed and chaotic first half of 2023 for my family and me. The first quarter of the...
2023-07-25
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Test Restore Your SQL Server Databases
Pain Point: Something bad happened and you need to restore a SQL Server database. Pain Point you didn’t know you had: The backup files are all corrupt due a...
2023-07-25
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A Security Change with SQL Compare 15
Actually, this is a change for many products and software that connects to SQL Server. Updated drivers require us to now decide to trust the server certificate. I opened...
2023-07-24
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Early Bird Pricing for the Data Community Summit Ends Jul 26
The early bird pricing for the PASS Data Community Summit ends this week, on Jul 26. After that, there is a bump, so let you boss know this is...
2023-07-24
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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: 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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