NY SQL Server User Group Meeting - Bill Pearson
Thursday, November 29, 2012, brings us the November
meeting of the NY SQL
Server User Group, with BI expert, SQL MVP and...
2012-11-28
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Significant Achievements
As a few of you know, I took the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM): SQL Server 2008 lab at this year’s...
2012-11-28
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HDInsight: First Pass
I installed HDInsight with no errors. The install is so brain-dead, I couldn’t see how there could be errors. But,...
2012-11-28
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The Last DBCC CHECKDB Date and Restores
I ran across a question on Twitter recently where someone asked about the DBCC CHECKDB date after a restore. For...
2012-11-28
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysreferences
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-11-28
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New Toy: The Brydge iPad Keyboard – Updated
Finally a REAL keyboard for my iPad!
I can’t tell you how long I’ve wanted a real keyboard that my iPad...
2012-11-28
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WIT Wednesday
On the fourth Wednesday of each month, the Women in Technology Virtual Chapter of PASS has its monthly conference call...
2012-11-28
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Differential Restore Fail
We have all heard that backup is not complete until you test it by restoring it. We also know that part of a DR plan involves the testing of...
2012-11-28
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Differential Restore Fail
We have all heard that backup is not complete until you test it by restoring it. We also know that...
2012-11-28
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Part 0.1: Data In, Data Out
In the first of a series of amateur tutorials on SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM), I promised to pull off...
2012-11-28
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Blogs
Lift and shift vs modernizing your data warehouse
By James Serra
If you are migrating a data warehouse, there is a question worth asking before...
Power BI Fun With Travels
By Steve Jones
I’m back from a great vacation. I had the chance to visit two new...
DiskANN Experiment — Exploring Entry Points and Graph Neighborhoods
Introduction I was experimenting with vector search in SQL Server 2025 using approximately 3.8...
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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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