A Short Treatise on Studying (#mcmstudy)
So I’m studying a lot these days, and I find myself evaluating and reconsidering the theories of “study” that I’ve...
2013-09-09
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Blog Posts
Developers Rate Azure One of Their Favorite Tools
Yeah, Azure.
How we program, what we program and where we program is changing. All the time. This excellent article lays...
2013-09-09
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DMV-14 : Which Table has Max. rows & Size……..sys.dm_db_partition_stats
sys.dm_db_partition_stats DMV (Dynamic Management View), described by BOL as follows: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187737.aspx
Returns page and row-count information for every partition in the...
2013-09-09
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Good Intro Podcast on Hadoop
Have you heard about Hadoop but don't know much about it? What about "big data?" Would you like an intro...
2013-09-09 (first published: 2013-09-03)
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High Availability within Windows Azure VMs – An exciting opportunity !
Windows Azure Virtual Machines is a real game changer as it gives us ability to spin up VMs in no...
2013-09-09
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How do the fixed Database and Server roles map to more specific permissions?
I recently asked what the difference is between granting SELECT to a user (at a database level) and adding the...
2013-09-09
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Junk Dimensions with no Loading Needed
When you are working with dimensional modeling there are some situations where several dimensional attributes don’t make since to be...
2013-09-09
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #48
Monday morning and it’s time for weekly round-up. This edition makes number #48. As a change to this week’s post,...
2013-09-09
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My 2013 PASS Suggestion Tsunami List
Back in August I posted about an approach that Aaron Nelson and I thought of to try to get more...
2013-09-09
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PowerShell – Uptime of Multiple Machines – Example for Custom Formatting and Grid View
This post is to help you out in finding UpTime of one or more computers also you can pass file...
2013-09-09
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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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