Powershell – Extract Versions for SQL Features
Over the last few months I’ve been directed to ensure that all of our SQL Servers in the Development and...
2014-02-05
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Blog Posts
Presenting at Code Camp Orlando
I’ll be at Code Camp Orlando on March 22, 2014 doing a presentation on storing credit cards in SQL Server...
2014-02-05
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Presenting at SQLSaturday Tampa
The schedule just went up, I’ll be presenting PCI for the SQL DBA this year. Looking forward to visiting Tampa...
2014-02-05
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20 Twitter Accounts to Follow For the 2014 Winter Olympics
Wondering how to stay informed and entertained during the 2014 Winter Olympics? Here are 20 Twitter accounts to get you...
2014-02-04
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Basic RegEx in SSMS
Have you ever had that moment where you have gone "Geez.. I wish I'd learnt this stuff ages ago" after...
2014-02-04 (first published: 2014-01-27)
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Forcing a contractor to go W2
I have had a few questions like this: “I was wondering if there is a reason the vendor/broker/head hunter forces...
2014-02-04
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How a High School Teacher Is ‘Gamifying’ World News
A new game called Fantasy Geopolitics (think Fantasy Football meets Model United Nations) is radically changing the way high school...
2014-02-04
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How Big Data Changed Finance at Microsoft
Finance leaders today are faced with an interesting challenge. How can they consume and analyze the millions of rows of...
2014-02-04
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Inside the Statistics Histogram & Density Vector
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan, where you are getting week by week via email...
2014-02-04 (first published: 2014-01-28)
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Performance Tuning Pre-con and More at SQLSaturday 277 RVA
Join me for 2 days of fun and education at SQL Saturday #277 in Richmond, VA on March 21 and...
2014-02-04
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Blogs
Lift and shift vs modernizing your data warehouse
By James Serra
If you are migrating a data warehouse, there is a question worth asking before...
Power BI Fun With Travels
By Steve Jones
I’m back from a great vacation. I had the chance to visit two new...
DiskANN Experiment — Exploring Entry Points and Graph Neighborhoods
Introduction I was experimenting with vector search in SQL Server 2025 using approximately 3.8...
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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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