A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Algorithm 3: Decision Trees
by Steve Bolton
This series of self-tutorials is an elementary-level introduction to SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM), not the product...
2013-01-16
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Day 14 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Fixing a Corrupt Tempdb
Welcome to day 14 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series. I’ve previously discussed handling corruption for nonclustered indexes...
2013-01-16
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Join me at SQLBits for a day of SSIS
I’m happy to announce that I’ve been selected to deliver a full day of training at the upcoming SQLBits conference...
2013-01-15
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Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices
Hello Dear Reader. Every now and then professionally you get to be a part of something really cool. Back in...
2013-01-15
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SSAS: One giant cube or many small ones?
When using SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) to build a cube, you may start out with one fact table, but...
2013-01-15
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New Year Aspirations – Chris Webb – SQLBits
SQLBits holds a special place for me as it was the first technical conference that I had ever been to....
2013-01-15
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Regression Testing before CUs and Service Packs
Someone asked me on Twitter recently if I ran full regression tests before applying Cumulative Updates (CUs). I decided it...
2013-01-15
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Want to see me break SSIS this Thursday?
OK, I’m not really going to break it. I’m just going to beat it up a little bit.
This Thursday evening,...
2013-01-15
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Scripts to Detect Data Warehouse Issues
Standards and best practices are like flu shots you take before you’re infected; Database best practices protect your databases from...
2013-01-15
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Scripts to Detect Data Warehouse Issues
Standards and best practices are like flu shots you take before you're infected; Database best practices protect your databases from...
2013-01-15
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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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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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