When DMVs Cost Me My Job
Back in early 2006, I was still working at my first ever DBA job. I had only been a DBA...
2013-12-27
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Friday Followup For December 27, 2013
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2013-12-27
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Day 3 – Reviewing Peers
This is the third installment in the 12 day series for SQL tidbits during this holiday season. Previous articles in this mini-series on quick tidbits: SQL Sat LV announcement...
2013-12-27
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Day 3 – Reviewing Peers
This is the third installment in the 12 day series for SQL tidbits during this holiday season.
Previous articles in this...
2013-12-27
1,006 reads
MDX #35 – Properties() function with TYPED flag
Reader Query
My publisher recently forwarded me a question from a reader about the “Using the PROPERTIES() function to retrieve data...
2013-12-27
1,517 reads
SQL Saturdays Coming Up!
Don't forget! Monday is the final give away! I will be giving away a free copy of the Professional SQL...
2013-12-27
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #63
It’s Thursday and about time for this week’s weekly link round-up. Since it’s the holidays, I didn’t feel like putting...
2013-12-26
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Entity Data Modeling with Visual Studio
While there are a lot of tools out there for data modeling, there is one option that is free if...
2013-12-30 (first published: 2013-12-26)
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Review of Change to PASS Bylaws
As required, the Board has posted proposed changes to the bylaws for review by the members. The changes are fairly...
2013-12-26
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Supporting Wikipedia & Other Organizations
I just sent Wikipedia five bucks. As someone who uses Wikipedia and finds it useful, I’m willing to donate in...
2014-01-01 (first published: 2013-12-26)
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Blogs
A Daily Report from Claude
By Steve Jones
Redgate had some Claude training recently, which I went through as my knowledge has...
A New Word: Gnossienne
By Steve Jones
gnossienne– n. the awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private...
Exploring DiskANN: Part I: Understanding the Algorithm before the disk
How I used AI for this postChatGPT to generate images based on info specifically...
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Getting Database MaiL Profiles
If I want to return information about all Database Mail profiles on my instance from T-SQL, how can I do this?
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