Google Buys Nest
I was a bit sad to see that Google bought Nest. I like upstarts that see a problem and solve...
2014-01-14
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Blog Posts
How to throttle your Storage with Resource Governor in SQL Server 2014
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan, where you are getting week by week via email...
2014-01-14
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Independent consultant: How to find work
When I talk to people about switching from being a salaried employee to an independent consultant (see my presentation How to...
2014-01-14
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Laying The Ground For A Successful Reporting Project
Building a reporting system from the ground up is a daunting task. Such a big project usually involves intricate resource...
2014-01-14 (first published: 2014-01-09)
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One error which you don’t want to see while doing upgrades – Missing MSI !
The cached MSI file ‘C:\Windows\Installer\<name>.msi’ is missing !!! This is one error which you don’t want to see when you are...
2014-01-14
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PowerShell – Change SQL Server Login Password
Here’s a quick post detailing a PowerShell script that can be used to change the password for a SQL Server Login. Regular readers know that I practice the philosophy...
2014-01-14
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PowerShell – Change SQL Server Login Password
Here’s a quick post detailing a PowerShell script that can be used to change the password for a SQL Server...
2014-01-14
2,281 reads
Sometimes It’s A Dirty Job – #TSQL2sDAY #50
Sometimes being a DBA really stinks. You try to follow best practices in everything you do. You’re not shrinking databases...
2014-01-14
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SQL in Albuquerque
It’s a little less than two weeks until SQL Saturday #271 – Albuquerque. The second event in that great city, and...
2014-01-14
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SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for January 2014
I spent some time this month to true up the SQL Server 2005 version, with the other versions for the...
2014-01-14
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Blogs
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...
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...
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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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