Closing all of the connections to a database
Doing a database restore may not be the most common task a database professional will ever do, but it’s a...
2017-12-07 (first published: 2017-11-27)
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Back To (Security) Basics
Security is very much on our minds these days. Scarcely a day goes by without hearing of a yet another...
2017-12-06 (first published: 2017-11-27)
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Vigilant SQL DBA Vulnerability Management & 1st Look at Azure Vulnerability Assessments (Baltimore SSUG Session last week)
Just a quick note to share last Wednesday night's presentation on how to manage SQL Server vulnerabilities, plus a first...
2017-11-27
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Design Concepts To Help You Create Better Power BI Reports
I have decided to write a series of blog posts about visual design concepts that can have a big impact...
2017-12-08 (first published: 2017-11-27)
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Create users in Azure AD
In this post I'll show you how to create new users in your Azure Active Directory so you can use...
2017-11-27
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PASS Linux for the SQL Server DBA Webinar – Dec 13
Join me for a session on Linux administration for the SQL Server DBA as part of the PASS SQL Server...
2017-12-04 (first published: 2017-11-26)
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Flexible connections and an old friend
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Just lately I’ve found myself involved with an app that needed to run on a server and nearly always (although...
2017-11-26
452 reads
Tricks - Copy T SQL Result to Excel
Sometimes, some of the silliest of tricks save so much of time and effort. Very common scenario is to copy a query result to excel. Most take either of...
2017-11-25
14 reads
Tricks - Copy T SQL Result to Excel
Sometimes, some of the silliest of tricks save so much of time and effort. Very common scenario is to copy a query result to excel. Most take either of...
2017-11-25
189 reads
Tricks - Copy T SQL Result to Excel
Sometimes, some of the silliest of tricks save so much of time and effort. Very common scenario is to copy...
2017-11-25
683 reads
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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Building a Support Ticket Triage Report with IIF() and CHOOSE() in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
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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