Tribal Awards: Vote Now!
The #tribalawards voting is now online. Get over there and get it done.
I honestly don’t care who you vote for...
2013-12-23 (first published: 2013-12-20)
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Blog Posts
Android is better than iOS
Not in many ways, and certainly not in enough for me to stick with Android over iOS, but here are...
2013-12-20
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Assign SQL Service Account with Group Policy
How do I assign and enforce a service account for the SQL Server Services with Active Directory Group Policy?
The answer...
2013-12-20
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Case-Sensitive Updates in a Case-Insensitive World
Assuming you're in a case-insensitive ("CI" in the collation name) column, this UPDATE statement:
UPDATE tablefoo
set foo = 'Z'
where foo = 'z'
will just...
2013-12-20 (first published: 2013-12-16)
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Friday Followup For December 20, 2013
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2013-12-20
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Reblog: December 13 to December 19
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just the information...
2013-12-20
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Setting up Security on sub sites in SharePoint 2010
A lot of companies have several departments and want to limit the sub sites users can view. For example, the...
2013-12-20 (first published: 2013-12-16)
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How to Set Up Managed Backups in SQL Server 2014
Earlier this week I introduced the concept of Managed Backups (and caused less of a turmoil than I thought I...
2013-12-19
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I’m presenting at the PASS Business Analytics Conference
I am fortunate enough to have been selected to give a presentation at the PASS Business Analytics Conference in San Jose, CA...
2013-12-19
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MDX Implementing Logical OR On Members of Different Hierarchies
Reference: MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Cookbook by Tomislav Piasevoli
In MDX, when two or more members...
2013-12-19 (first published: 2013-12-15)
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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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Reusing Customer Specific Order Filtering Logic with CROSS APPLY and an Inline TVF (Part 4)
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PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Databases
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Question of the Day
PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Databases
Which of the following meta commands (sometimes called backslash or slash commands) within psql will provide you with information about the databases on the cluster?
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