Reblog: January 18 to January 24
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2013-01-25
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New Years Aspirations – Kevin Kline – Presenting
I’ve been very privileged to be able to work alongside Kevin on a few projects during our time together at...
2013-01-25
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Replication Latency
I've used Replication a lot over the years and contrary to the opinions of most DBA’s I know, I think it...
2013-01-25
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SQL Server Non Clustered Index Tutorial for Beginners
In the past I have come across comments like SQL Server is slow (small tables) or interviews where someone had...
2013-01-25
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Backup SQL database directly to Azure Storage
There is a new CU update for SQL 2012 SP1 and I noticed a very interesting new feature described in...
2013-01-25
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Day 20 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: The Case of the Backups That Wouldn’t Restore
I have decided to spend day 20 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series by relating a true tale...
2013-01-25
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I'm an Administrator Why Can't I Copy Files
Hello Dear Reader! I've been working on setting up a virtual environment for quite some time. When last I wrote...
2013-01-31 (first published: 2013-01-24)
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Audit Configuration Changes
Do you know the last time a Server Property was changed on your instances of SQL Server? Are you wondering when the setting for max degree of parallelism was...
2013-01-24
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Audit Configuration Changes
Do you know the last time a Server Property was changed on your instances of SQL Server?
Are you wondering when...
2013-01-30 (first published: 2013-01-24)
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If You Need To Fix Database Filename Extensions
In a recent post I showed how the file extension for a database doesn’t matter. It can be confusing, however,...
2013-01-24
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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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