24 Hours of PASS: Summit Preview Edition
The latest 24 Hours of PASS (24HOP) event will start at 12:00 GMT on July 31, with 24 back-to-back one...
2013-07-30
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Blog Posts
Exploring Excel 2013 for BI Tip #10: The Data Bar
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2013-07-30
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How secure is your IT career? Really?
I was reading some articles from my favorite influencers in LinkedIn and I came across this one. I was enlightened...
2013-07-30
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Miscellaneous Reading for July 2013
Must read blog: Sacha Chua. Lots of info on going solo, being productive, sketch noting.Related, if you’re trying to manage...
2013-07-30
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Partitioning Deck, Demos, and Recording Live!
Hello Dear Reader! This week finds me up in Jacksonville at Pragmatic Works HQ. I'm a little behind in getting...
2013-07-30
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SQL Server 2014: Columnstore Index improvements
In SQL Server 2012, a new feature was added called Columnstore Indexes that resulted in huge query performance improvements. In SQL...
2013-07-30
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Thank you, Mr. Solomon
On one of the newsgroups I follow, I received a message that David Solomon will no longer be teaching seminars...
2013-07-30
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Using Google Charts With AngularJs
I recently rewrote a small webpage in AngularJs and it was amazing how much lighter and cleaner it made the...
2013-07-30
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Using MSX and TSX to scale out your maintenance plans
For our front office alone, I manage about 15-20 SQL database servers. Add to that other database servers that I...
2013-07-30
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A Long Summer Vacation
Based on a bit of luck/happenstance I’ve been able to stretch my summer vacation to two months. I had planned...
2013-07-29
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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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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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