Share Your Ideas for Improving PASS on September 9th (Suggestion Tsunami!)
My friend Aaron Nelson was in Florida recently for SQLSaturday #231 and we always find a few minutes to catch...
2013-09-06 (first published: 2013-08-08)
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Blog Posts
Speaker of the Month: September 2013
This is my second post in what I hope will be an ongoing series. You can see the rules for...
2013-09-06
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SQL PASS Virtualization VC Presentation Wednesday September 11 at 11AM MST
Next Wednesday I will be delivering a session for the SQL PASS Virtualization virtual chapter entitled “SQL Server High Availability...
2013-09-06
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The Case of the NULL Query_Plan
As a DBA, we're often asked to troubleshoot performance issues for stored procedures. One of the most common tools at...
2013-09-06 (first published: 2013-09-03)
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A Better Braindump (#mcm #mcmstudy)
I’m studying my butt off for the soon-to-be-deprecated Microsoft Certified Master cert’s lab – and the three unfinished prerequisite certs I’ve...
2013-09-05
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A T-SQL query to get current job activity
I recently had the task of collecting job activity for the purposes of turning it into a report for some...
2013-09-05
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Actual Emails: TL;DR: Stop using varchar(max)
Wrote this email recently to a crew of developers who were shooting themselves in the foot with a database rich...
2013-09-05 (first published: 2013-09-03)
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Free Tools For The DBA
In this post we will look at 5 free tools that I use on a daily basis, I'll give a...
2013-09-05
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Introduction to Integrity: Corruption in Allocation Pages
Welcome back for day two of this six part series Introduction to Integrity, sponsored by Idera. In this post, I...
2013-09-05
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Is Microsoft attempting to "de-skill" IT Pros in its attempt to increase its Cloud business?
When I first heard of the MCM program termination discontent, I reacted by sympathizing with my fellow Database Professionals but...
2013-09-05
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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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