Erin Welker joins Artis Consulting
Earlier this week, my employer, Artis Consulting, welcomed a new addition to our team. Technical expert Erin Welker (b|t), a...
2013-02-08
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Blog Posts
Excel 2013 Inquire Add-in
What is Inquire
The Inquire Add-in for Excel 2013 helps you analyze and review your workbooks for things like relationships, invalid...
2013-02-08
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Executive Visibility for DBAs: Use SQL 2008 Row+Page Compression, or SQL 2005 (SP2+) vardecimal Conversion, to Reduce Space ($/GB SAN) & Logical Reads
One of the great features available since SQL 2008 is Row and/or Page Compression. However, even for those of you on SQL...
2013-02-08
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Exploring Excel 2013 for BI Tip #1: Quick Explore
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2013-02-08
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Granting Permission to Grant Permissions
I’ve never felt the need to allow this, but I saw someone ask the questions recently. Suppose you had a...
2013-02-08 (first published: 2013-01-28)
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How to break a high end de-duplication backup device
I have been working with a client recently who purchased a nice top of the line de-duplication backup device in...
2013-02-08
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Invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #39 – Can you shell what the PoSH is Cooking?
T-SQL Tuesday Party History
In case you’ve been hiding out in the desert, oblivious to all that goes on, there is...
2013-02-08 (first published: 2013-02-05)
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MDX #25 – Slicer or Sub-Cube?
Slicer, Axes and Calculations Can All Filter Data in MDX
Every developer with SQL background knows how the WHERE clause works....
2013-02-08
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Reblog: February 1 to February 7
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2013-02-08
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SQL Server – Cycle Error Logs for SQL Server and SQL Server Agent
SQL Server error logs can fill up quickly, and when you are troubleshooting something you may need to go through...
2013-02-08
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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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