CPU Overcommitment and Its Impact on SQL Server Performance on VMware
In the early days of virtualization, the core focus of virtualization was primarily consolidation. You could achieve quite high consolidation...
2012-12-17
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Your Top 10 Posts of the Year
Top of the Flops
Short and sweet today, here’s what you enjoyed reading the most this year on the blog. No...
2012-12-17
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Are You a Chessplayer?
I was having a twitter coversation with @dataartisan about chess. He remarked that playing on-line with random folks didn't strike him...
2012-12-17
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Generating multiple SQL statements from a query
Dynamic SQL is one of my favorite tools in the DBA toolbox. I’m big on automation and dynamic SQL can...
2012-12-17
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On the Fifth Day…
Today we will have a quick change of pace. This will be less about maintenance and more about internals. Today’s topic is one of particular interest to me as...
2012-12-17
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On the Fifth Day…
Today we will have a quick change of pace. This will be less about maintenance and more about internals.
Today’s topic...
2012-12-17
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SQL Server Training in 2013–SQL Server 2012 New Features
As we approach the end of 2012 – The release year for SQL Server 2012 many of you as we approach...
2012-12-17
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On the Fourth Day…
We have come to the fourth day in this mini-series. So far I have laid down some under-carriage maintenance for one of our favorite databases. That database being the...
2012-12-16
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On the Fourth Day…
We have come to the fourth day in this mini-series. So far I have laid down some under-carriage maintenance for...
2012-12-16
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PASS Data Arch VC presents: Intro to Master Data Services by James Serra
Please join this Thursday Dec 20th 2012 at noon central for Business Intelligence expert/consultant James Serra talking Master Data Services....
2012-12-16
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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
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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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