Look At The SQLSaturday Orlando Home Page
One of the weaknesses of the current SQLSaturday tool set is that the front page isn’t strong by default. It...
2014-03-10
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Bad Ideas: Alert Storming
Fellow DBA: There are so many alerts! It takes me a long time to get through them all. How do...
2014-03-10
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The Phoenix Project: a DBA rises from the ashes
About a year ago, fellow blogger Thomas LaRock recommended the book The Phoenix Project, claiming that “every business leader and...
2014-03-19 (first published: 2014-03-10)
2,138 reads
Two Digit Dates in SQL – MM/DD/YYYY
When creating dates or numbers as strings it is sometimes required to have two digit numbers.
For example, instead of...
2014-03-10
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Two Digit Dates in SQL – MM/DD/YYYY
When creating dates or numbers as strings it is sometimes required to have two digit numbers.
For example, instead of this:...
2014-03-10
1,208 reads
PowerShell, help me to publish my SSRS reports to SharePoint!
Every time when I heard the word 'PowerShell' it was just like a call to Terra Incognito, you know nothing...
2014-03-18 (first published: 2014-03-09)
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Doing it with the EzAPI
In my last post, I attempted to write a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Package programmatically.
I used the API that...
2014-03-09
4,626 reads
5 Things a developer should know about databases
Database Normalization
Theoretical versus real-world
There is not a strong need for developers to know the theoretical definition of 1st thru 5th...
2014-03-17 (first published: 2014-03-09)
6,589 reads
VMware Certification Changes
The last twelve months in my certification world have been rather odd. First, Microsoft has terminated their Microsoft Certified SQL...
2014-03-09
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Auditing VMware vCenter Actions (on SQL Server)
When you’ve got a SIEM appliance or application, you want actions and events going into it as a central repository....
2014-03-07
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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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