Cumulative Update – 6 for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 Is Now Available !
The 6th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 is now available for download at the...
2013-04-19
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Friday Fun – Football Derbies
This is an off-topic post for a Friday. With Cardiff City reaching the premier league this week and all the...
2013-04-19
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Getting the lowdown on 18456 errors
If you can establish a connection to a SQL Server, but are having problems logging in to it, you will...
2013-04-30 (first published: 2013-04-18)
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Backing Up Azure SQL Database to the Cloud
When I first started working with Azure SQL Databases, I wasn’t sure what it would take to backup a database....
2013-04-18
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dynamic sql and a char crash
Dynamic SQL can be helpful, but a pain to debug. I spent hours today working on figuring out why my...
2013-04-18
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SQL Saturday #175–Fargo
One of the goals early on with SQL Saturday was to spread them far and wide. Andy Warren and I...
2013-04-18
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Microsoft let new SQL Server version name slip?
There has been lots of speculation in the SQL Server community as to what the official name of the next...
2013-04-18
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PASS Business Analytics Conference: the ultimate networking
I went to the PASS Business Analytics Conference last week, and had an absolute blast. I presented two sessions, and...
2013-04-18
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Monitoring SQL Server Agent job run times
Introduction
A few months back, I was asked how long a particular nightly process took to run. It was a super...
2013-05-01 (first published: 2013-04-18)
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How to default SSRS date parameters to the first and last day of the the previous month
Populating default dates in SSRS can be helpful to save the user from having to constantly input the date range...
2013-04-18
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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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