Madison SQL Saturday (#SQLSat206) Coming Up
It’s coming up in just a couple weeks… the SQL Saturday in Madison, Wisconsin. On April 6th, a couple hundred...
2013-03-20
911 reads
Laws You Break at Your Peril
Laws of Thermodynamics
TANSTAAFL
Gods of the Copybook Headings
All magic comes with a price
Winter Is Coming
My adult years started with a pretty...
2013-03-20
864 reads
The Axis Of Evil
Views, table variables and local variables are great in terms of programming principles.
But In terms of performance, they can be...
2013-03-25 (first published: 2013-03-20)
2,817 reads
How To Be An Expert At What You Do
Every successful company has them. They’re the lifeblood of their organisations. Linchpins essential to getting things done and doing them...
2013-03-20
1,050 reads
How I used Data Explorer to create a demo
Some time ago Data Explorer, an add-in for Excel 2010 or 2013, was released in Public Preview. In short, it...
2013-03-20
849 reads
PowerShell Usage in DBA Work – Case Study 5/7
One challenge in a super-multiple server (say a few hundred servers) environment is to know what sql services (SSRS/SSAS/SSIS/Engine/Agent etc)...
2013-03-20
1,029 reads
Retrieve unsaved query
I was working on a remote machine and while I was away, the machine was restarted. Lost the scripts I...
2013-03-20
135 reads
Consuming News Through Social Media and Read It Later With Pocket
These days the fastest way, not always the most accurate, to get news is through social media. Technology, sports, politics,...
2013-03-20
1,099 reads
Remove duplicate records from a table in SQL server
Here I create a table and
inserted some duplicate records for testing purpose.
createtable temp(cust_id varchar(50))insertinto temp(cust_id)values('oms1'),('oms2'),('oms1'),('oms2'),('oms3')select*from temp
Method 1: (You can simply...
2013-03-19
3,849 reads
SQL Server 2012: Indirect Checkpoint (Target Recovery Time), get the real scoop
SQL Server 2012 brings a new feature called Indirect Checkpoint. You can read more about it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189573.aspx. With Indirect Checkpoint, you get smaller and too many I/Os Checkpoint...
2013-03-19
49 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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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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