Train Rides and A Silly Train Story
This past week I took my kids on a train ride from Philadelphia to Washington DC. It was their first...
2013-06-07
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Blog Posts
Upcoming SQL Saturday Precons
I’m happy to announce that I’ll be delivering three, one-day preconference seminars this summer prior to three different SQL Saturday...
2013-06-07
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Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 6 – Installing PowerPivot for SharePoint
Before we can configure SharePoint, we will have to install the Analysis Service instance that will host the PowerPivot workbooks...
2013-06-06
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IT recruiter’s response
I asked a recruiter to check out my blogs about consulting, and his response is below. He had some good...
2013-06-06
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My TechEd Presentation: Indexing Fundamentals for Microsoft SQL Server
This past Monday, I presented at TechEd North America for the first time. The session presented was Indexing Fundamentals for...
2013-06-06
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Speaking in Denver and Boulder in June
I will be speaking at the Boulder SQL Server User’s Group on June 18, 2013 and at the Denver SQL...
2013-06-06
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Why Anti-Virus Offers Limited Protection
Sitting in the first Keynote for the 2013 Techno Security and Forensics Investigation Conference, I was not surprised to hear Kevin...
2013-06-06
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An interview with Alex Whittles Chairman of SQLRelay 2013
Some of you may recall in January I ran a series of interviews entitled “New Year Aspirations”. This interview was...
2013-06-05
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Backup a password, change it, then restore it.
A couple of months ago I talked about moving a login from one server to another without the password. The...
2013-06-05 (first published: 2013-05-30)
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Easy way to generate a restore script.
Easy way to generate a restore script.
I was asked today if I had a canned restore script handy. I don’t....
2013-06-05
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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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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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