The Three C’s Of Interviewing
A client of mine recently asked me to help fill a junior-level position in their organization. This isn’t uncommon; I...
2011-03-07
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Blog Posts
Upcoming Engagements
I haven’t been blogging lately because I’ve been busy tweaking my resume, working on PASS SQLRally, serving at church, and spending...
2011-03-07
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Upcoming Engagements
I haven’t been blogging lately because I’ve been busy tweaking my resume, working on PASS SQLRally, serving at church, and spending time with my family. Things aren’t going to be...
2011-03-07
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XQuery for the Non-Expert – Aggregates
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post.
Talk to the Experts
In the...
2011-03-07
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In summary - SQLskills internals.
Well, I attended a full week of SQL internals from Paul Randal [Blog | Twitter] and Kimberley L. Tripp [Blog | Twitter]...
2011-03-06
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Leading Wildcards Aren’t A Good Default
SQL Server has LIKE, which lets us do various pattern matches, but most commonly we use the percent side as...
2011-03-05
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SQL Server Hardware Selection Presentation from Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta
I just wanted to post a link to my presentation on Hardware 201: Selecting and Sizing Database Hardware for OLTP...
2011-03-05
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Back from the MVP Summit
Back home after three days in Seattle at the 2011 MVP Summit. As I wrote in an editorial this week,...
2011-03-04
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Having Cake and Eating it Two
In early January, I wrote a little tribute to my wife for the awesome job she does when making cakes. There was a lot of good feedback from that....
2011-03-04
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Having Cake and Eating it Two
In early January, I wrote a little tribute to my wife for the awesome job she does when making cakes....
2011-03-04
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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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