Disable, don’t delete those indexes
A quick post this week, since it’s that time of the year when people do gift exchanges and put up...
2017-12-20
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Born SQL with Randolph West
2017-12-13
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All Mac users should do this immediately
This post is a public service announcement for all users of macOS High Sierra (10.13). (Note: Apple has already released...
2017-12-06
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Introducing SQL Operations Studio
Note: This is content that I originally wrote for our upcoming book, SQL Server 2017 Administration Inside Out, that did...
2017-11-29
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MySQL has this feature that SQL Server needs
In the grand scheme of things, MySQL and SQL Server operate in different realms. It’s difficult to compare them because...
2017-11-22
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SQL Server 2017 Administration Inside Out
For the last five months or so, I have been helping some really smart people put words on paper, both...
2017-11-15
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T-SQL Tuesday: The Contributing Factor
Ewald Cress writes: Find a person or several people to pick on, and tell us a shareable story or two...
2017-11-14
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Is Transparent Data Encryption just security theatre?
I love theatre. In six months I am putting on two one-act plays for a local festival, because I don’t...
2017-11-08
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Gimmicks that work: XE Profiler in SQL Server Management Studio
I have a favourite new feature of SQL Server Management Studio 17.3 (SSMS), and that’s XE Profiler, which allows you to...
2017-11-01
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Repair a Windows Server 2016 installation
This is more for my benefit in the future, but hopefully it can help someone else too. We recently had...
2017-10-25
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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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