Execution Plans on Azure SQL Database Portal
If you’ve been working with the Azure SQL Database portal, you know that you have a query window. Within the...
2013-01-16 (first published: 2013-01-14)
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Blog Posts
New Year Ambitions – Brent Ozar – Consulting
You are of course someone who needs little introduction in the SQL Server community. A prolific blogger, tweeter, speaker, Microsoft...
2013-01-16
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SQL Server Auto grow
I had a great response to my blog post and poll last week about how DBAs use auto grow. In...
2013-01-16
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SSIS Top 10 Best Practices Basics
Best Practice is a difficult one... It generally depends on many factors. In my opinion SSIS Best practice is a...
2013-01-16
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You Can Say “No”
I heard about this new law that was passed to prevent employers from asking for your social media passwords. After...
2013-01-16
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Day 13 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Standard Backup Scripts
31 Days of Disaster Recovery
Today’s post took longer to prepare than I had anticipated which is why day 13...
2013-01-15
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Exam 70-432 - SQL Server 2008 Implementation and Maintenance
For years, actually more like a decade, I've been saying that I'm going to get certified in SQL Server. Well...
2013-01-15
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Join me at SQLBits for a day of SSIS
I’m happy to announce that I’ve been selected to deliver a full day of training at the upcoming SQLBits conference...
2013-01-15
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New Year Aspirations – Chris Webb – SQLBits
SQLBits holds a special place for me as it was the first technical conference that I had ever been to....
2013-01-15
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Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices
Hello Dear Reader. Every now and then professionally you get to be a part of something really cool. Back in...
2013-01-15
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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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