Microsoft Most Valuable Professional – Data Platform
Today, I’m proud to announce that I have been named a Microsoft MVP – Data Platform. This is an exceptional honor and I’m humbled to be included in this...
2017-01-02
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Microsoft Most Valuable Professional – Data Platform
Today, I’m proud to announce that I have been named a Microsoft MVP – Data Platform. This is an exceptional honor...
2017-01-02
664 reads
Grateful to have been a Microsoft MVP
A couple of weeks ago I received the disappointing but expected news that I wasn’t renewed as a Microsoft Data...
2017-01-02
442 reads
Make Your Application's Name Heard
Odds are, you’ve got more than one application or script accessing your database or SQL Server instance at any given time. You’re probably stacking them on a small number...
2017-01-02
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Identifying Blocking Chain in SQL Server
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017!!
I hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year. I always try to review my...
2017-01-01
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2016 – A Year to remember
2016 has undoubtedly been a landmark year in my life. To me it marked my first conscious entry into mid...
2016-12-31
820 reads
Data Channel - Interview 02 - Hamid Fard on SQL Server Memory Capacity Planning
Dear All,
Welcome to the second interview of Data Channel. Very happy and proud to have Mr Hamid Fard, MVP and...
2017-01-06 (first published: 2016-12-31)
1,841 reads
Performance-Oriented SQL Server Development – The Scripts
Last Thursday, I delivered my seminar, Performance-Oriented SQL Server Development at the Expert Days conference in Israel.
It was a great experience,...
2016-12-30
925 reads
Finding Automatic Soft-NUMA
If you already know about Automatic Soft-NUMA in SQL Server 2016, then you probably already read the blog post SQL...
2017-01-04 (first published: 2016-12-30)
2,255 reads
Query tuning 101: Non-trusted Foreign Keys
Foreign keys are an interesting feature of relational databases. They help enforce data integrity, sometimes help improve performance by eliminating...
2017-01-05 (first published: 2016-12-30)
3,567 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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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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Question of the Day
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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