TGI SQL Friday – Weekly round up Friday 12 August 2016
This week has seen the launch of my new SQL Server newsletter in conjunction with Learning Tree. If you would...
2016-08-12
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Using PowerShell to find Processor issues & more
One of the top three performance killers for SQL Server is lack of processing power. I’d say that it’s second...
2016-08-18 (first published: 2016-08-11)
2,158 reads
Tricky TSQL: NOT IN (NULL)
We’ve done this before, but we can go one better this time. Let’s take this step by step. NULL means...
2016-08-11
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Opening .SQL Files in SSMS 2016 by Default #SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-08-11
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Write-Only permissions
Yep, that’s right, you heard me. Write-Only not Read-Only. I was presenting SQL Server Security Basics at NTSSUG the other...
2016-08-11
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Do YOU Checksum?
I am going to show you why you should be using checksum options on your backups (and restores). I AM...
2016-08-11
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Regex With SQL Server - SQLSharp
In the context of my developer machine, I had log files I wanted to parse through. I setup a log...
2016-08-11
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Regex With SQL Server - SQLSharp
In the context of my developer machine, I had log files I wanted to parse through. I setup a log...
2016-08-17 (first published: 2016-08-11)
3,378 reads
Azure SQL Database vs SQL Data Warehouse
I am sometimes asked to compare Azure SQL Database (SQL DB) to Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW). The most important...
2016-08-17 (first published: 2016-08-10)
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What’s a Database Pipeline?
One of the things I ran into a few years ago was the idea of a software pipeline. A set...
2016-08-19 (first published: 2016-08-10)
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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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Building a Support Ticket Triage Report with IIF() and CHOOSE() in SQL Server
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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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