Creating SQL Server 2008 Databases with T-SQL
Imagine you need to create a database on a customer’s machine, but you don’t know how they have their file...
2010-03-24
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PASS Update #27
I’m just back from the March 2010 Board meeting and it went better than usual (for any meeting). Most of...
2010-03-24
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Getting Stubborn Chief Executive Officers to Listen: Speak Their Language
After consecrating several posts on workplace bullying, and hearing our great Steve Jones rant about Toshiba’s lack of action regarding...
2010-03-24
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Avoiding Plagiarism
Having gone to an academic magnet school, I have quite a few friends who are teaching at the university level...
2010-03-24
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Adding a Column to Every Table
I am Script. I will update your database.
Despite the best laid plans, sometimes circumstances or project scope change and the...
2010-03-24
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A Personal Story about Networking
This is not a technical or SQL Server post, but it does illustrate the power of networking.
We recently took my...
2010-03-24
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SQL Server 2008 R2 - The list of the supported features
The MSDN - Microsoft, has collected too much info about features supported by the SQL Server 2008 R2, for all editions...
2010-03-24
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Why I Don’t Run for the PASS Board
It’s getting close to that time of year when you can apply to run for the PASS Board of Directors....
2010-03-24
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Managing Your Backup Files
I recently posted a couple of scripts that backup all databases on your SQL Server instance to disk with a...
2010-03-23
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SQL Saturday #39 New York
New York, New York, it’s a hell of a town. The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down. The people...
2010-03-23
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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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Question of the Day
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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