A Learning Experiment at SQL Saturday #187– Richmond
In a little over a week, SQL Saturday #187 takes place in Richmond, VA. I’m looking forward to going back...
2013-02-27 (first published: 2013-02-25)
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Benchmark SQL Server Disk Latency
Typically, I am a big advocate of performance monitor but one place I commonly see performance monitor being misused is with benchmarking...
2013-03-06 (first published: 2013-02-25)
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Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #21
Every day, I link out a few blogs posts and articles that I’ve read or used from across the internet....
2013-02-25
1,007 reads
A Month of PowerShell – Day 25 (Integrity Checks)
Welcome to Day 25 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-03-07 (first published: 2013-02-25)
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SQL Saturday #187 Richmond And More
In just a couple of weeks I’ll be flying down to Richmond, VA to speak at SQL Saturday #187. I’ll...
2013-02-25
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DROP and CREATE vs ALTER
When writing a script to change a piece of code, say a stored procedure or view, there are 3 basic...
2013-03-05 (first published: 2013-02-25)
5,159 reads
Building My Next Workstation–Part 2
Building a computer, at least in the beginning, feels like something you have to do holistically and at the same...
2013-02-25
1,265 reads
SQL BLOG: Calculating total number of days from 1st Jan without using DATEDIFF function
Below script will calculate total number of days based on the input from user from 1st Jan. Though we have...
2013-02-25
902 reads
Managing Critical Server Lists with Remote Desktop Connection Manager
Most Server Administrators, whether Database Administrators or not, are quite familiar with the Remote Desktop Connection (a.k.a. RDP) tool, which...
2013-02-25
2,643 reads
Day 29 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Using Database Snapshots to Restore Replicated Databases in Test
For day 29 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recover series, I want to talk about restoring replicated databases from...
2013-02-25
1,369 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: 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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