The 200 Billion Dollar Tweet
Hello Dear Reader! Ever try to convince someone that they should be paying attention to Twitter? A co-worker, Vice President...
2013-04-24
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Building My HDInsight Server Cluster
After all the hype about Big Data, Hadoop, and now HDInsight, I decided to build out my own big data...
2013-04-24
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SQL Power Doc Update - Version 1.0.1.0
A quick note to let you know that SQL Power Doc version 1.0.1.0 is now live. This release fixes issues...
2013-04-24
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How do I tell the stored procedure name from inside the stored procedure?
I’ve occasionally had the problem of trying to put “smart” logging messages into a process. You know the ones, you’re...
2013-04-24
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Estimate Table Size based on the Metadata from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
A problem I face often is not knowing the size of a new table that I’m creating. I put some...
2013-04-24
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VMworld Presentation Voting – I Would Appreciate Your Votes
This year is the first year that I have submitted a session to VMware’sVMworld 2013, to be held in San...
2013-04-24
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Looking Back
In July 2011 I took what felt like a big chance and a detour to lead a large and complex...
2013-04-24
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DMV-8 : Check Space consumed by Database……..sys.dm_db_file_space_usage
sys.dm_db_file_space_usage DMV (Dynamic Management View), described by BOL as follows: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174412.aspx
Returns space usage information for each file in the database.
It’s...
2013-04-24
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Thank you Triangle SQL Server User Group
Thank you TriPASS for a great SQL Server Users Group session tonight! Thank you all for attending, and your questions...
2013-04-24
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Fargo SQL Saturday (#SQLSat175) Schedule Is This Weekend
We are down to the last few days before first SQL Saturday in Fargo. It’s been some work pulling it...
2013-04-23
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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: 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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