Work Isn’t the Most Important Thing
I had quite an adventure today, away from work. We had a pipe freeze in the house, a sick kid,...
2011-02-02
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Blog Posts
24 Hours of PASS Sessions Announced
In case you missed it last week, PASS has announced the speaker lineup for the next 24 Hours of PASS. ...
2011-02-01
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31 Days of SSIS – SSIS Naming Conventions (31/31)
31 Days of SSIS
We’re at the thirty-first, and last, post for the 31 Days of SSIS. The series started with...
2011-02-01
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February Question: Share with us your “best” restore disaster stories.
As DBAs, making backups and restoring data is one of the foundational skills we all must master. But sometimes things...
2011-02-01
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Is a clustered index best for range queries?
I see a lot of advice that talks about the clustered index been the best index for use for range...
2011-02-01
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PASS Update #51-Summit Site Selection
In November/December HQ requested that the Board to send in suggestions for possible sites for the 2013 PASS Summit. I...
2011-02-01
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SQL Rally BI Sessions
This week the voting for the SQL Rally BI track went out, and I wanted to send a quick reminder...
2011-02-01
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This Month… SSWUG Free SSIS Expo
Stinking Feet?
A couple months back I mentioned the SSWUG Free Expo Event: Basic and Complex SSIS Features. The time has...
2011-02-01
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What’s a Passive Server?
Licensing software is often a more complicated process than I think it should be. Licensing database software seems to be...
2011-02-01
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Your Lack of Documentation is Costing You More Than You Think
You’ve got a mountain of work to get done and not enough time to do it in. There’s simply just not...
2011-02-01
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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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