XQuery
In 2005 version of SQL Server, XQuerying was introduced. It’s a powerful feature and when used together with a CTE,...
2013-03-27
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Blog Posts
A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Part 10.2: DMX DML
by Steve Bolton
The three introductory posts in this series of self-tutorials on SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM) and the...
2013-03-26
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Chicago SQL Saturday (#SQLSat211) Coming Up
We’re less than three weeks away from the Chicago SQL Saturday. This will be my fourth time heading to Chicago...
2013-03-26
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Office Space–Not The Movie
I’ve worked in a lot of different offices and office layouts over the years. Looking back I’ve been lucky (or...
2013-03-26
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PASS Business Analytics presents MVP Jessica Moss: Putting the Business Into Business Analytics
I saw Jessica Moss presenting at the PASS Summit a couple of years ago on Reporting Services. She has been...
2013-03-26
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Policy Based Management On Change: Prevent not available
Policy Based Management has 4 evaluation modes and if you are not already familiar with them you can go HERE...
2013-03-26
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Six top SQL Server 2012 management tools you should know about
Management tools play a vital role in enterprise database management. This is because the well-integrated tools extend the administrator’s capabilities,...
2013-03-26
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SQL Saturday #187–Richmond Recap
I’m late writing this, and I did mean to get to it earlier, but life got in the way.
TL;DR: It...
2013-03-26
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SQL Server: Purging msdb History Tables to Control msdb Database Growth
From time to time, I see the following question posted on various SQL Server forums by different users asking why...
2013-03-26
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Sub query pass through
Occasionally in forums and on client sites I see conditional subqueries in statements. This is where the developer has decided...
2013-03-26 (first published: 2013-03-22)
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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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