SQLSaturday#200 PA Event Update!
With less
than two weeks to go until SQLSaturday#200 at 45
Liberty Blvd., Suite 210 Malvern, PA 19355, Malvern, PA, 19355 they're...
2013-05-20
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Blog Posts
Indexes – Understanding basic types and their components
The biggest problem developers and newer DBAs have with understanding indexes is that you don’t realize when you’re using the...
2013-05-18
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Certifiable?
I have recently begun to contemplate pursuing the MCSA Certification. I have been working with SQL Server for almost 20...
2013-05-17
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PowerSQL – Find Size, Name, LastAccess and Last Modified time of all bak files across ALL Servers
We came across a scenario where database bak files being created from long time which are no more in use...
2013-05-17 (first published: 2013-05-13)
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Software Design and Schizophrenic Windows 8 Part 2
I know it’s not schizophrenic, but that sounds better. It’s really a split personality.
I wrote recently about Windows 8 and...
2013-05-17
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SQLSaturday #220 Atlanta
From the tweets, it looks like there will be about 800 attendees sitting in on 11 different tracks with 5...
2013-05-17
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Windows, RIP (1992 – 2013)
Today is a very sad day for me. My love, my dear Windows has passed away. We were together for...
2013-05-17
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Bill Gate’s speech
One of my friend shared this content. I’m just sharing with you all.Good one and I like it pretty much!!!!Bill...
2013-05-16
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DMV-11 : T-Log space used by transaction……..sys.dm_tran_database_transactions
sys.dm_tran_database_transactions DMV (Dynamic Management View), described by BOL as follows: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186957.aspx
Returns information about transactions at the database level.
Some time , T-log...
2013-05-16
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Dragging a name from the object explorer to a query window
In the same vein as Steve Jones’ series on Customizing SSMS this is a fairly basic trick, but one that...
2013-05-16 (first published: 2013-05-13)
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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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