Q&A From “5 Ways to Improve Performance through Indexing”
A few weeks back spoke at a Pragmatic WorksTraining on the T’s on indexing that was titled 5 Ways to Improve Performance through...
2013-09-13
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Blog Posts
Reblog: September 6 to September 12
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just the information...
2013-09-13
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Windows Azure Service Dashboard – Checkout the health of Azure Services
Windows Azure Service Dashboard is an excellent way to know the health/availability of your Windows Azure Services.
You might always want...
2013-09-13
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1199 Data Professionals and you
The second incarnation of 2013 “SQL Relay” is bigger and better than ever. We have taken on board all of...
2013-09-12
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Introduction to Integrity: Corruption in Nonclustered Indexes
It’s day four of our six part series Introduction to Integrity, sponsored by Idera, and tonight’s topic is going to...
2013-09-12
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Microsoft Certified Master program killed
The Certified Master and Architect community was collectively notified Friday, August 30, at 10PM PST that the Certified Master (MCM/MCSM)...
2013-09-12
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Microsoft Expands Data Centers… Again
Didn’t they just do this in the spring? Word is out that they’re expanding even more data centers. The cynical...
2013-09-12
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SQL Server – Find all the LOB Data Type Columns in a Database Using T-SQL Script
Today morning when I was working on a huge database containing lots of LOB data, I was required to know...
2013-09-12
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TPC-E Benchmark Results for Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2
Two new TPC-E benchmark results have shown up for two-socket database servers using the brand new, 22nm Intel Xeon E5-2697...
2013-09-12
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T-SQL Tuesday #46 Rube Goldberg Machine aka Automating Deleting Older Certificates
Hello Dear Reader! This is the second Tuesday of the month and you know what that means, T-SQL Tuesday the...
2013-09-12 (first published: 2013-09-10)
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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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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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