Becoming a Microsoft MVP
I was awarded the Microsoft MVP (data platform) award on Saturday.
On the four days a year (one per quarter) when...
2016-10-03
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Future DBA – Big Data -MongoDB 1
We have discussed hadoop and its HDFS management tools for big data system, which works horizontal scaling for data distribution...
2016-10-03
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Query Store – Quick Tour
The query store, Borko Novakovic Senior Program Manager from Microsoft calls this feature “Similar to an airplane’s flight data recorder”....
2016-10-03
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Changing SQL Server name
This post is about how to rename a stand-alone SQL server instance. There could be some reasons to do that:...
2016-10-02
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An observation about Unicode in SQL Server Management Studio
A week or so ago I read a blog post and tweet about using an emoji in SQL Server. This...
2016-10-14 (first published: 2016-10-02)
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Changing SQL Server name
This post is about how to rename a stand-alone SQL server instance. There could be some reasons to do that: You simply forgot to change the name of your...
2016-10-02
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Changing SQL Server name
This post is about how to rename a stand-alone SQL server instance. There could be some reasons to do that: You simply forgot to change the name of your...
2016-10-02
27 reads
Changing SQL Server name
This post is about how to rename a stand-alone SQL server instance. There could be some reasons to do that:...
2016-10-02
299 reads
Historical Reports vs. Predictive analytics: Rear view mirror look vs. Forward-looking view. Really?
[2016-Sep-30] Working with reports based on historical data is like driving a car while looking in the rear view mirror. I heard...
2016-09-30
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SQLCover Fixes and Download location
There have been a couple of fixes in SQLCover this week, kindly submitted by John Mclusky (https://github.com/jmclusky):
Code coverage not reported...
2016-10-07 (first published: 2016-09-30)
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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...
Forums
Training the next generation
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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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