Not so good news for MCM Aspirants
Few days back, late Friday (30th August 2013) MS has made an announcement – that they are cancelling the MCM Certification,...
2013-09-05
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SQLSaturday Salt Lake City #246
Fast approaching (yeah just a couple of days out now), is SQLSaturday 246. This year t he event is sort of in Salt Lake City, being another 10-15 minutes...
2013-09-05
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SQLSaturday Salt Lake City #246
Fast approaching (yeah just a couple of days out now), is SQLSaturday 246. This year t
he event is sort of...
2013-09-05
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Vendor Management Systems
A vendor management system (VMS) is a web-based application that acts as a mechanism for businesses to manage and procure...
2013-09-05
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sp_executesql, Parameters and Parameter Sniffing
I’m honestly not crazy about dynamic T-SQL within stored procedures. There are just a few too many opportunities to mess...
2013-09-05
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Log Backup Failing–A Simple Mistake
Last week I was checking on some stuff and noticed that a couple databases were in simple mode – unusual, but...
2013-09-05
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Free Tools For The DBA
In this post we will look at 5 free tools that I use on a daily basis, I'll give a...
2013-09-05
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Introduction to Integrity: Corruption in Allocation Pages
Welcome back for day two of this six part series Introduction to Integrity, sponsored by Idera. In this post, I...
2013-09-05
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Is Microsoft attempting to "de-skill" IT Pros in its attempt to increase its Cloud business?
When I first heard of the MCM program termination discontent, I reacted by sympathizing with my fellow Database Professionals but...
2013-09-05
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A T-SQL query to get current job activity
I recently had the task of collecting job activity for the purposes of turning it into a report for some...
2013-09-05
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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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Reusing Customer Specific Order Filtering Logic with CROSS APPLY and an Inline TVF (Part 4)
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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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