Interview with Mohammad Darab
Recently I was interviewed by Mohammad Darab, and his questions were very insightful! I had a lot of fun answering...
2018-01-04
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MVP Data Platform
Holy Cow! I still can’t believe it, I was awarded the Microsoft MVP – Data Platform today. I guess I really...
2018-01-04
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Azure SQL Analytics
Azure SQL Analytics is currently in preview mode, still it is very impressive. The goal of this feature is to...
2018-01-04
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Sharepoint Diagnostics and XE
In this article I have introduced you to a quick session setup that comes from using the SPDiag tool that could plausibly be useful in the troubleshooting of various...
2018-01-04
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Sharepoint Diagnostics and XE
One of the all-time greatest and most beloved applications among DBAs happens to be Sharepoint. Most of us would be...
2018-01-04
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How Secure is Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) – and How to Prevent Hacking
TDE is commonly described as “at-rest” encryption, i.e. it protects your data wherever it is stored on disk. This includes...
2018-01-15 (first published: 2018-01-03)
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DevOps Does Not Make Admins Obsolete
As a follow up to my tweet, I stand by my belief that DevOps does not make administrators obsolete. I...
2018-01-11 (first published: 2018-01-03)
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Kicking Off The New Year With A Bang
Back in 2015, I said would think about speaking in my #TSQL2sday #61 post. Well here it is 2018 and...
2018-01-03
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Tab Groups (Day 3)
Have you ever wanted to have two different queries open up at the same time where you could see them,...
2018-01-03
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Creating a SQL Server Test Lab On Your Workstation – Part Two, Creating a Domain Account and Joining a SQL Server to the Domain
In the second part of our series on creating a SQL Server test lab on your workstation, I’m going to...
2018-01-12 (first published: 2018-01-03)
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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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