A Month of PowerShell – Day 1 (Getting Started)
Welcome to Day 1 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. PowerShell is one of those things that I know...
2013-02-01
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Blog Posts
Activating Windows 8 from MSDN
I installed Windows 8 recently and needed to activate it. I didn’t do this on the install since I didn’t...
2013-02-01
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Ask the Unicorn: Why is it Important to Know Tables in Filegroups?
Earlier this week, I wrote a quick blog post on a throw-away script I had written. The blog post was DETERMINING...
2013-02-01
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Database Lifecycle Management for Azure SQL Database
DLM 1.0 Released Today When “SQL Azure” first became available a couple of years ago, I played with it, created...
2013-02-01
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FLOAT datatype casting issue
Do you use the FLOAT datatype? If so you had better read this……
Today I came across an issue somebody posted...
2013-02-01
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Reblog: January 25 to January 31
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2013-02-01
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SQL Intersection 2013 – Las Vegas in April
It’s not too hot, it can be fun, and after a full day of SQL Server learning, there are lots...
2013-02-01
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SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries (Feb 2013)
Here is the February 2013 version of my SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries, with some minor tweaks and improvements...
2013-02-01
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SSIS 6 Million Rows in 60 Seconds using standard laptop
SSIS is a very powerful tool and can be very fast however I frequently come across situations where performance could...
2013-02-01 (first published: 2013-01-28)
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SSRS 101 – Prerequisites
Before I actually start explaining and demonstrating how to build SQL Server Reporting Service (SSRS) reports there are few things...
2013-02-01 (first published: 2013-01-23)
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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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Question of the Day
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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