The perils of RAID
Recently, I was asked to assist an organization with getting their data back for a SQL Server that had experienced...
2017-10-18
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Born SQL with Randolph West
Why is a value in DATETIME2 8 bytes, but in BINARY it is 9 bytes?
In the #sqlhelp Slack channel on the SQL Server Community Slack workspace last month, Jemma Hooper asked: When trying to...
2017-10-11
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Changes to Service Packs and Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2017
For a few years now, Microsoft has augmented its irregular release of Service Packs with a more frequent Cumulative Update...
2017-10-04
458 reads
Compañero Conference and SQL Modernization Roadshow
October is a busy month for me. I am flying all over the US and Canada for speaking engagements to...
2017-09-27
562 reads
Does rebuilding my clustered index also rebuild my non-clustered indexes?
I’ve been working with SQL Server for many years now, and up until recently, I assumed that rebuilding any clustered...
2017-09-20
450 reads
A trillion and one
Joe Obbish wrote an epic post a few weeks ago about loading a trillion rows into a non-partitioned table in...
2017-09-13
458 reads
Connect Windows 10 client to a VPN on Windows Server 2012 R2
I got a strange request in a Slack channel the other day. A colleague in South Africa, who uses Windows,...
2017-09-06
402 reads
What you need to know about memory limits on SQL Server
Last week, I posted this statement on Twitter, along with a screen capture of the official Microsoft documentation: Reminder: Max...
2017-08-30
365 reads
Speaking at SQLSaturday #635 in Vancouver this weekend
This coming weekend, at SQLSaturday #635 in Vancouver BC, I will be presenting a brand new talk about Temporal Tables,...
2017-08-23
132 reads
Microsoft presents: MySQL and PostgreSQL?
For the longest time, MySQL has been the recommended database platform for blogs and other websites. It’s free. It’s available...
2017-08-16
162 reads
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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Question of the Day
PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Tables
Which of the following psql meta commands (also called backslash or slash commands) will provide information about tables within a database?
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