Budgeting for SQL Saturdays
We’ve been doing SQLSaturdays for eight years at Louisville now. We’ve had a quite a wide range of budgets depending on...
2016-09-13
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What is a SARGable predicate?
‘SARGable’ is a weird term. It gets bandied around a lot when talking about indexes and whether queries can seek on indexes. The term’s an abbreviation, ‘SARG’ stands for...
2016-09-13
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What is a SARGable predicate?
‘SARGable’ is a weird term. It gets bandied around a lot when talking about indexes and whether queries can seek...
2016-09-13
180 reads
What is a SARGable predicate?
‘SARGable’ is a weird term. It gets bandied around a lot when talking about indexes and whether queries can seek...
2016-09-13
1,751 reads
Interview Questions for Companies
In this article I will be posting interview questions by companies. Whenever I am facing any interview or someone shares...
2016-09-13
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Azure: Creating a BACPAC from an On-Premises SQL Server Database
So to start, what’s a BACPAC?
Per the Azure documentation
When you need to create an archive of an Azure SQL database,...
2016-09-13
1,262 reads
Importing a BACPAC to SQL Server
We previously looked at Archiving Azure SQL Database to a BACPAC and in today’s post we are going to address...
2016-09-22 (first published: 2016-09-13)
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Statistics with TSQL and R: Chi Square Test
As I move on from descriptive and largely univariate (one variable based) analysis of data into more multivariate data – one...
2016-09-21 (first published: 2016-09-13)
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Top 5 Books for Database Developers
My Top 5 series of books has proved very popular. The first post titled Top 5 books for Enterprise Architecture was the...
2016-09-13
1,793 reads
DBCC CHECKFILEGROUP
Well, with the name “blobeater” it was about time I did another post on CHECKDB. This time I want to...
2016-09-14 (first published: 2016-09-13)
1,240 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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PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Databases
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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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