Box-and-whisker plot and data patterns with R and T-SQL
R is particularly good with drawing graphs with data. Some graphs are familiar to most DBAs as it has been...
2017-10-03 (first published: 2017-09-25)
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Cookie Consent
More of an FYI, but the EU Cookie Consent law goes into effect on Oct 1. Maybe this matters to...
2017-09-25
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UNDERCOVER TOOLBOX: Sp_ChangeJobOwnerShip – Changing Ownership in bulk.
How many times have you seen SQL Agent jobs with random ownership? It can be very frustrating when you are...
2017-09-25
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An analytical mind
Last week I was reading this article in which a Professor argues that students should be allowed to take smartphones...
2017-09-25
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dataMinds Connect 2017 – And The Winner Is?
Last week I had the privilege to host a little contest to give away one free ticket to dataMinds Connect...
2017-09-25
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Columnstore Indexes – part 113 (“Row Groups Merging Limitations”)
Continuation from the previous 112 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post serves as the continuation...
2017-09-24
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Instant File Initialization in SQL Server on Linux
Earlier this week Ned Otter (@NedOtter) brought up a question about Instant File Initialization on SQL Server on Linux, check out the thread here. I was up way too...
2017-09-23
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Instant File Initialization in SQL Server on Linux
Earlier this week Ned Otter (@NedOtter) brought up a question about Instant File Initialization on SQL Server on Linux, check...
2017-09-23
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SQL Server On Containers
On Sep 23rd 2.45 PM PST, I will be presenting 2 sessions on “SQL Server On Containers” @ at SQLSaturday San Diego, if...
2017-09-23
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Information Measurement with SQL Server, Part 2.2: The Rényi Entropy and Its Kin
By Steve Bolton
…………I kicked off this far-ranging series on using SQL Server to quantify information by discussing two of the...
2017-09-22
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Blogs
Power BI Fun With Travels
By Steve Jones
I’m back from a great vacation. I had the chance to visit two new...
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...
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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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