How to Avoid SQL Server 2008 Lingering Evaluation Installs - Validation Before Applying SP2 (10.0.2531 to 10.0.4000)
We wound up in a nasty situation recently where SP2 could not be applied to an instance of SQL Server. ...
2011-02-21
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Blog Posts
London UK SQL Server User Group – It’s Back!
"We're back with a Bang!"
In case you missed it, being tucked away amongst all the other UK SQL Server User...
2011-02-21
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Moore’s Law May Be The Death of NAND Flash
"It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t...
2011-02-21
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Pragmatic Transition: Lighthouses and Shipwrecks
Sometimes your mistakes are the greatest lessons...
This is the next post in my series about transitioning from a DBA to...
2011-02-21
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SQLSaturday#69 - Update - Schedule Posted! - You Can Still Register
It's just a little less than 2 weeks to SQLSaturday#69 at DeVry University, 1140 Virginia Drive, Ft. Washington, PA 19034...
2011-02-21
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Testing SSAS Security in Excel
There are many posts available that describe how to test Analysis Services security from inside the development environment.Today I would...
2011-02-21
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The Joy of Contracting
As you may or may not know I have been contracting since 2007, almost 4 years now and I have...
2011-02-21
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The Winter 2011 Colorado SQL Tour
During my visit to Denver last September for SQL Saturday 52, I spent a while talking with Marc Beacom, who...
2011-02-21
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Use Patterns and Prior Code and Don't Reinvent the Wheel
In recent days I've seen folks try to recreate functionality when they had access to code that already did effectively the...
2011-02-21
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24 (Hours of SQL Training Delivered to Your Computer)
The Spring 24Hours of PASS: Celebrating Women in Technology will be broadcast live on the intertubez on March 15 and 16...
2011-02-20
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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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