Visual Studio 2012 now supports BI!
My most popular blog has been Visual Studio 2012 does not support BI. In short, this means VS 2012 does...
2013-03-06
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Blog Posts
Building My Next Workstation–Part 3
With a case ordered and a CPU in mind I decided to focus on the power supply next. Remember that...
2013-03-05
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Career Growth and How You Can Achieve Explosive Results
Continued investment in your professional development for career growth is hard. It’s also essential to being a successful Data Professional.
You’ve...
2013-03-05
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Dealing with a Fragmented Heap
Just for the record, this happens to be one of my favorite interview questions to ask candidates.
At some point in...
2013-03-05
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DMV-1 : Who All Are connected ? …. sys.dm_exec_connections
The sys.dm_exec_connections DMV (Dynamic Management View) is represented by Books Online (BOL) as follows : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181509.aspx
Returns information about the connections established...
2013-03-05
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DROP and CREATE vs ALTER
When writing a script to change a piece of code, say a stored procedure or view, there are 3 basic...
2013-03-05 (first published: 2013-02-25)
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Invitation to T-SQL Tuesday #040: File and Filegroup Wisdom
Hello and welcome to the third T-SQL Tuesday of 2013!
Over three years ago, Adam Machanic (Twitter) dreamed up the idea...
2013-03-05
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Microsoft Data Explorer
Data Explorer (download), which I first mentioned in my blog about PASS Summit 2011 (SQL Server 2012 and other PASS...
2013-03-05
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On Trends And Proportions
Assuming you’ve been on earth lately, you probably heard the terms “Big Data”, “Hadoop”, “NoSQL” and so on.
Companies want to...
2013-03-05
571 reads
Picking a Conference Venue
I was reading about the American Association of Woodturners annual symposium that will be held in Tampa this year (and...
2013-03-05
643 reads
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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