On the Second Day…
Yesterday, I introduced the 12 Days of pre-Christmas. In that first article, I gave you a gift to help maintain...
2012-12-14
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Cross-database Queries by Contained Users
Cross-database Queries by Contained Users
http://www.necromaticmedia.com/2007/11/containment/
I presented to the Pacific Northwest SQL Server User Group / PASS Chapter (PNWSQL) last night on...
2012-12-14
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Big Data and Hadoop Part 1
Big Data Definition
As per wiki Big Data usually includes data sets with sizes beyond the ability of commonly-used software tools...
2012-12-14
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Next Gen File System ReFS(Resilient File System) and SQLServer !
“ReFS”, this term was absolutely new to me when I was reading this white paper from Microsoft ‘Storage Windows Server...
2012-12-13
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On the First Day…
Many of us have heard the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Some are familiar with how that song has some connection with the Holiday season for Christians. Fewer...
2012-12-13
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On the First Day…
Many of us have heard the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Some are familiar with how that song has...
2012-12-13
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Solution to VSTA editor error in SSIS 2012
The script task in SSIS 2012 is a great tool when you need to use C# or VB code to...
2012-12-13
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SQL Server Training–New York New York!
For those that read my blog regularly you will know that I over the last couple of years I have...
2012-12-13
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Using XQuery to remove duplicate values or duplicate nodes from an xml instance
Sometimes we need to retrieve a list distinct values from within an xml instance or even distinct nodes and this...
2012-12-20 (first published: 2012-12-13)
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The Great DBA Getaway
Free, at last!
It’s holiday season which means it’s a time for you all to buy me gifts super busy time for Data...
2012-12-12
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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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