SQL Training: Black Friday Deals Up to 75% Off
This Black Week, don't just get a discount—get ahead! Whether you're a total newbie or already know some SQL, this sale has awesome learning options at prices you won't...
2024-11-22
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How to find free space in Azure PosgreSQL
I wanted to figure out how big (or approximately how big) my dump file would be. In QA, I have (relatively) large dbs (compared to prod). Enter the pgstattuple...
2024-12-02 (first published: 2024-11-21)
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Living with Chronic Suicidal Thoughts: A Personal Reflection
For as long as I can remember—since I was 16 or even earlier—chronic suicidal thoughts have been an unrelenting presence in my life. They’re not
The post Living with Chronic...
2024-11-20
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T-SQL Tuesday #180: Good enough is perfect Roundup
This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all who posted on this topic! Here are the highlights of the posts (in alphabetical order...
2024-11-21 (first published: 2024-11-20)
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Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used with a read-only database as a source. It’s a good questions as I’ve seen some...
2024-11-29 (first published: 2024-11-20)
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Off to Live 360
I am off to Live 360 today, on my last trip of the year. I’m excited to deliver two presentations tomorrow (VSTH03 and VSTH12), but a little sad this...
2024-11-20
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Book Review – Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices
I was asked to do a review of the book Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices (Amazon link), which means I got a copy for free. The book is...
2024-11-29 (first published: 2024-11-19)
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SQL Server Distributed Availability Groups and Kubernetes
A while back I wrote about how to use a Cross Platform (or Clusterless) Availability Group to seed a database from a Windows SQL instance into a pod in...
2024-12-02 (first published: 2024-11-19)
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Introducing SQL Server 2025 - Enterprise Ready AI
Introducing SQL Server 2025 - Enterprise Ready AI SQL Server 2025 is an upcoming release focused on AI, analytics, and modern database development, backed by innovations in mission-critical engine...
2024-11-27 (first published: 2024-11-19)
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Webcast Tomorrow on SQL Server Disaster Recovery
Tomorrow, November 19, 2024, at 1 PM EST, I'm giving a webcast on SQL Server Disaster Recovery. It'll cover all the typical methods built-in to SQL Server, with a...
2024-11-18
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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: 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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