Enabling Cortana for dbareports PowerBi
Last week at the Birmingham user group I gave a presentation about PowerShell and SQL Server
It was a very packed...
2016-11-16 (first published: 2016-11-13)
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Residual Predicate and "Number of Rows Read" in Execution Plans
What is Residual Predicate?
Lets say one gets a query to fine tune. While checking the execution plan, if there is...
2016-11-17 (first published: 2016-11-13)
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What does an Index mean to a Query
This post is about the importance of a right index to a query. The following simple query was considered. [crayon-5e96566159ca8644006533/] Even simple, this query was causing troubles on our production...
2016-11-11
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What does an Index mean to a Query
This post is about the importance of a right index to a query. The following simple query was considered. [crayon-5e81b52eda1f0195410103/] Even simple, this query was causing troubles on our production...
2016-11-11
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What does an Index mean to a Query
This post is about the importance of a right index to a query. The following simple query was considered.
SELECT
[GroupBy1].[A1] AS...
2016-11-11
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Why we need a PASS Sponsor Portal
Major sponsors in our space get hundreds of emails from us each year, all asking for money. Those are all...
2016-11-11
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How to deploy your SQL Server database to a remote server
CASE 1: you have direct access to both the SQL Server where the source database is and the SQL Server where the target database is.
First time deployment
Backup / restore...
2016-11-11
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How to deploy your SQL Server database to a remote server
CASE 1: you have direct access to both the SQL Server where the source database is and the SQL Server...
2016-11-11
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SSIS Catalog Project Versioning
If you’ve spent much time working with the SSIS catalog, you likely already know that the catalog is where all...
2016-11-15 (first published: 2016-11-11)
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Special Index - XML Index
I will be writing this series of articles for the Special Indexes in SQL Server. In this series we will...
2016-11-11
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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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